Fighting spam: a never ending story
We have been pretty quiet over those last months, but that was mostly to allocate our energy in preventing miscreants from abusing this freely available resource. The sad truth about the Internet is that there will always be unrespectful beings that will try to divert efforts to provide a useful tool to the community to their own personal profit.
There are also clueless postmasters that will report sites like ours as generating spam e-mail, which is not the case. However, some spam messages mentioning short URLs from pra.im were enough to see us listed in several anti-spam blacklists. We got in touch with the blacklist managers and got delisted. Problem fixed, for now. (more…)