In response to my previous post about notifications:

[bondchick_nett]

twotone has the explanation: Livejournal has been placed on the Spamhaus black list.

Relatedly, there's a paid user account petition going on for people demanding better customer services.

Edit: engram_au continues to be awesome, and has come up with a temporary solution. I'm off to create a purpose-built gmail, and set up a livejournal-jabber now. ^_^

Comments

[engram_au]

Great. So now what? (Also - thanks! At least now we know WHY)

One person in there said "now I am receiving notifications again" but doesn't say how. Very helpful of them. Since it's blocked at the e-mail server level rather than at LJ level there is not much we can do about it. And quite frankly stopping the notifications is letting the spam build up on the accounts of legitimate users because unless we obsessively comb through our accounts looking for new comments we have no way of finding the spam.

This whole thing is actually quite beautiful in it's simplicity and catch-22-ness. Block notifications from LJ because they allow spam thus allowing spam to proliferate because legitimate users have no way of finding it and reporting it. How to kill a service/website in one simple step?

[bondchick_nett]

That was pretty much my summation of the situation too. Cue zillions of people jumping to dreamwidth/journalfen etc

[engram_au]

See my post earlier today. I've switched to gmail and am using IM notifications as a trial as well. Though the IM notifications aren't as good because they're not as versatile as the email notifications. I'm getting email notifications so at least that is working. I know you have your own email hosting but gmail might be a good solution until this mess is sorted out.

[bondchick_nett]

THANKYOU for this! I'll get a purpose built gmail going now :D <3333

[jessalie_aranya]

That is just...great. I don't ever get spam on this journal. I get some Russian sexytiems stuff on my sims journal, but it isn't enough to warrant a blacklisting. And how the hell can we fix it???

[bondchick_nett]

There's nothing we can do personally to fix it, basically. Its all on livejournal to clean up their act and put structures in place to stop the spammers being able to benefit from the holes in livejournals set up.

In the meantime, we unfortunately check everything manually >_<;;

[bondchick_nett]

See Kasia being awesome above and in her journal. :D