http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/10/anti-spam-tip-of-the-day-complain/?source=rss A bit of my personal life, mainly focused on my kids. A bit of code, mainly focused on Wordpress and PHP. Overall, bits of nothing in particular. Fri, 18 May 2012 15:58:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/10/anti-spam-tip-of-the-day-complain/comment-page-1/#comment-80099 Hostgator is actually spammer friendly Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:12:44 +0000 http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/10/anti-spam-tip-of-the-day-complain/#comment-80099 I'm wondering if you checked the spammer's site the next day. If you did, you would have probably found it back up. I've reported a prolific Craigslist spammer several times. At first they were hosted with Yahoo along with Yahoo serving as domain agent. Yahoo killed their site, "buyniceart.com", and it has remained a corpse since then. They got a new domain name, "nicemodernart", and set up shop on Hostgator. After they dumped a couple hundred "nicemodernart" spamvertisements on Craigslist again I reported them to Hostgator abuse. Hostgator took the site down, but for only half a day. When I emailed abuse again that the hundreds of spam posts were still on Craigslist and I felt their "zreo-tolerance" policy was worthless considering the site was back up, they told me the spammer "explained" the situation and to report any future spam activity. A few weeks later, Craigslist is hit with another spam wave of this pathetic excuse for art. I sent links to Hostgator abuse and the site was suspended again - this time for only a few hours. Hostgator has shown themselves to me as being quite spammer friendly. :-( I’m wondering if you checked the spammer’s site the next day. If you did, you would have probably found it back up. I’ve reported a prolific Craigslist spammer several times. At first they were hosted with Yahoo along with Yahoo serving as domain agent. Yahoo killed their site, “buyniceart.com”, and it has remained a corpse since then. They got a new domain name, “nicemodernart”, and set up shop on Hostgator. After they dumped a couple hundred “nicemodernart” spamvertisements on Craigslist again I reported them to Hostgator abuse. Hostgator took the site down, but for only half a day. When I emailed abuse again that the hundreds of spam posts were still on Craigslist and I felt their “zreo-tolerance” policy was worthless considering the site was back up, they told me the spammer “explained” the situation and to report any future spam activity. A few weeks later, Craigslist is hit with another spam wave of this pathetic excuse for art. I sent links to Hostgator abuse and the site was suspended again – this time for only a few hours. Hostgator has shown themselves to me as being quite spammer friendly. :-(

]]> http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/10/anti-spam-tip-of-the-day-complain/comment-page-1/#comment-68819 Hostgator Bites Spam - PlagiarismToday Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:07:41 +0000 http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/10/anti-spam-tip-of-the-day-complain/#comment-68819 [...] the Hostgator suspended page hampered my article a bit, it was still a welcome site. The service, despite reportedly acting quick against spammers, has earned a reputation as a spam haven due to the nature of its [...] [...] the Hostgator suspended page hampered my article a bit, it was still a welcome site. The service, despite reportedly acting quick against spammers, has earned a reputation as a spam haven due to the nature of its [...]

]]> http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/10/anti-spam-tip-of-the-day-complain/comment-page-1/#comment-40450 Ozh Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:24:08 +0000 http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/10/anti-spam-tip-of-the-day-complain/#comment-40450 Sandra » Yes, a simple whois is enough to know this information. There are also tools around, like http://whoishostingthis.com/ Sandra » Yes, a simple whois is enough to know this information. There are also tools around, like http://whoishostingthis.com/

]]> http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/10/anti-spam-tip-of-the-day-complain/comment-page-1/#comment-40449 Sandra Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:57:42 +0000 http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/10/anti-spam-tip-of-the-day-complain/#comment-40449 Since I host my websites on Hostgator I am soooo glad to hear that they nipped that spammer in the bud! How did you figure out it was a domain hosted on Hostgator? Whois? Since I host my websites on Hostgator I am soooo glad to hear that they nipped that spammer in the bud! How did you figure out it was a domain hosted on Hostgator? Whois?

]]> http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/10/anti-spam-tip-of-the-day-complain/comment-page-1/#comment-40162 Robert Irizarry Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:09:44 +0000 http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/10/anti-spam-tip-of-the-day-complain/#comment-40162 Nice work! And if you do decide to come up with a plugin along these lines, I'd give it a try! Nice work! And if you do decide to come up with a plugin along these lines, I’d give it a try!

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