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It's been a pretty eventful week. We're still experiencing issues with notification delivery. Please know that we're working very hard to resolve this matter involving a third party. We'll keep you posted right here.

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[astragali]

LJ's IP is listed in the Spamhaus Blocking List because LJ is allowing Russian pharma spammers to abuse their service. Spamhaus is one of the most respected anti spam organizations in the world, and being listed there means they've ignored spammers on their network for quite a while and virtually no large ISP/email host wants their mail until they start acting like responsible Internet citizens.

http://www.spamhaus.org/Sbl/listings.lasso?isp=livejournal.com is the listing.

[veracity]

I got that earlier. I went to delete it about an hour ago and it said "suspended user," but it's the first of many. And they're in random places, too. Like all in my writing journal, which is rarely used.

[aj_hyena]

I get those spam posts... in posts I made a year ago. Heh.

Still, unwanted spam is unwanted.

[veracity]

Yeah, some of mine is from stories I haven't touched in 4 years. I have no idea how they're finding them.

[lexkixass]

That's what I keep getting, too. I keep deleting/reporting it.

[imnot_laughing]

^ this. That was very weird, first spam I've ever gotten from lj. Not happy.

[teaberryblue]

I have been getting spammity comments on public LJ entries, and I have been getting spam sent to me as an LJ message in my LJ message inbox.

+1

[technobubblegum]

I've been on LJ since 2003 and it's only in the past couple weeks that spam comments have started showing up on my journals.

[friendships]

Kind of only tangentially related, but there's currently a petition going for users with paid accounts to voice their opinions and hopefully let LJ realize just how many of us put money into a service without getting reliable customer support. Just wanted to help spread the word!

[animus_nocendi]

I saw the link on another comment and it meant nothing to me, so thanks for the little bit of explanation. That really puts everything in perspective!

[darkblysse]

The spamming is getting worse for me. It went from comments on public posts to now getting PMs from the spambots!

[aliasjack]

the worst part is the only notifs i've been getting are from russian spammers :/

[dorked]

Ugh. That's so stupid. So it's okay for LJ to block span codes, but they won't do anything about Russian spam bots? :/

I'm sorry, but LJ needs to get its priorities straight. Forget about games; LJ isn't facebook. If people want games, they can go to facebook or other sites that include games.

Anyway, thanks for the link! I'll spread the word.

[azurelunatic]

Oh dear. Spamhaus is srs bzns.

Looking at the listing there, it seems to be that it's spammers hosting their warez on LJ, rather than other forms of bad behavior (like spammers spoofing email claiming to come from livejournal.com, or people reporting news post notifications as spam rather than retrieving/resetting their account info and unsubscribing). So if that is correct, then LJ would want to track down the spammers who have set up little nests on LJ, and root them out and destroy them

[astragali]

That's great, if LJ acts on the reports they receive. The Spamhaus listing strongly implies they do not.

[azurelunatic]

I've seen spammers get whacked. I used to volunteer here, though not in spamwhackery, and I know they do.

What I know about the system, from various talk and the code as it's installed elsewhere, is that offenders with a lot of reports get handled first. Sadly, this implies that spammers with few reports are going to sit around for a while; I don't know how long. I don't know how soon Spamhaus prefers to have stuff handled; I don't know how many hours of labor LJ has to devote to whacking spammers; I don't know how many are likely to go unreported or slip through the cracks. I don't think my speculation is likely to serve any useful purpose.

I care about LJ, and it kills me to see it being left to the spammers.