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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.

[astragali]

I sure haven't, and I work at another large anti spam service. In fact, they don't even accept reports from our service and users, and they haven't since 2009.

[azurelunatic]

Oh, ack, that's rough. :(

[xlerb]

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

they just sit around in their own journals making spammy posts (and apparently emailing people to point them to those spammy posts).

Since I don't think anyone has linked to the detailed spam report in this thread, I will do so. I think it makes it unambiguously clear that the situation is as you describe.

[azurelunatic]

Ah, thank you for that link, I had not poked far enough to see that.

[astragali]

The spammers run botnets. They infect workstations and then use those infected machines to send spam, often pharma spam. They have to have a place to direct their marks, so they also use the botnet to create web sites on LJ.

[heirdom]

I found (and reported) some journals earlier that had been created in early January and had racked up 20,000+ posts. One I saw had an hour-old journal on its 32nd entry. It's ridiculous.

[deadflowers5]

I always get stupid ciril ads. I can't even read it. Why do they think I'll buy anything?

[green_knight]

Thanks for explaining this. Maybe I should update my support request with this information...

I'm finding it difficult to believe that LJ wasn't able to find this out. A news post saying 'ooops, we're having difficulties, we're taking steps to resolve this' would go a long way.

Nine days is a very long time to not do anything at all. (And right now, I definitely feel I'm not getting my money's worth - unless I compulsively refresh every page I've commented on, I don't know whether people are talking to me, which puts a damper on conversations.)

[doubtful_salmon]

Uhhhh, did Facebook just become more respectable than LiveJournal?

End of Days IS coming.

[green_knight]

Rest assured: Facebook now wants to give developers access to your phone number and address, so they're the same old 'you signed away your rights to privacy when you joined' folks after all.

[deadflowers5]

*thumbs up*

[mudou_setsuna]

Jeezus, is this why I'm getting no notifications? Fuck.

[ksol1460]

At this point I think I'd rather have the spam.

[astragali]

It doesn't work like that. The listing isn't to stop spam to LJ users; it's to stop spam from LJ, or advertising LJ.

[acciochocolate]

Thanks for posting this info. I've taken info from here and posted not only in my LJ, but in all the comms I mod in some form, and have encouraged other users to pass the info along.

It would be really nice if LJ CS would get back to us with real info.

All the paid time trials in the world aren't going to help LJ's PR. Getting rid of the Russian spam bot would help.

Is Marta still around to answer questions? I hope so, as she seemed like she really cared and was nice.

I'm taking spam bot names from the SH listing and reporting them, and hoping that others will do the same.