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the subconscious mind · 2 years ago

great info! recently had a few spammers on my site, luckly the aski plugin took care of them for me!

XIII · 2 years ago

Useful info and links, everyone with a domain gets these kinds of problems sooner or later, especially the people who are stuck in shared host environments.

Asterix · 2 years ago

Hi Josh MX lookup is a good tool..

Malignition.com · 2 years ago

Thanks for the info and tool recommendations. I've been pretty lenient on spammers myself, but I think it's time I get in touch with some of their ISPs.

Andy · 2 years ago

Thank you for recomendation of this tool. I use akismet against spam, it works good, but your tips will be very useful.

Rafael-Auckland · 2 years ago

What a very useful information. Someone also had been spamming members of one of my forums. They are humans trying to post their sites which are all porn sites. Josh, Thanks for the Information.

builder · 2 years ago

Now you scared me. I thought somebody did something and I might find my sites there. But everything is clear now.

Barry Cox - Kierland Homes · 2 years ago

This is awesome information. Also, Subconcious Mind thanks for the info on the aski plugin. I will have to check it out.

Dallas Office Space · 2 years ago

Thanks for the neat tool. I need a plug in to stop all my spam.

Matt S · 2 years ago

Within the first two days of my site going up, I was recieving spam. Anyway, thanks for the info!

Sarah Lane · 2 years ago

Nobody likes spam, but are you sure it is actually illegal? I thought all the laws on the books were at the state level, making this legal in many area of the USA... but then again, I might have old information.

Dunder Mifflin Infinity Office · 2 years ago

Thanks- this is a great tip for stopping spammers.

Video conference software · 2 years ago

Sarah Lane, some guys in US and Europe were sued for spamming.
So in some places spam is not allowed.

Many thanks Joshua for sharing this info.

Gorilla Trades · 2 years ago

thank you for sharing, that's great information about spam

Yen Rubie · 2 years ago

Spammers are everywhere. Good thing you have shared this information to me. This is great for my home loan refinance sites. I will use this program and I'm sure spams will be weeded out.

site funda · 2 years ago

i have faced the spammers a lot, i had to close or sell out a few forums because of the spamming. anyways, nice tips there, i will follow them,

Online Gaming · 2 years ago

mental note..don't get on Josh's bad side cause he's a beast ;) ; dude that was hardcore that you tracked him down and his provider...good stuff though. Pretty messed up when they private message everyone on a forum. I bookmarked this page for the tool to check for blacklists, thx.

Education Blogger · 2 years ago

This happened to me on my forum! Someone spammed every single member. I had a few people get really upset. I also figured it out initially because I have a few member accounts and I got emails from that fool. LOL.... wish I would've known about how to take care of it then!

ny seo · 2 years ago

Getting your ip removed from certain blacklists can be extremely tedious, and spam has been growing like a wild-fire.

So, this is an critical issue which must be understood by new site owners.

I chased down a hacker/spammer to turkey, notified his isp, webhost and our FBI.

But, with certain countries it seems nothing will work, besides blocking the country's ip, which is not fool-proof either.

Similarly...

Recently Bush refused to formally declare Turkey responsible for the Armenian genocide which happened between "1915 and 1923, resulting in the deaths of 1.5 million." Source CNN.com

Why? Cause 70% of our air traffic to Iraq goes through Turkey. Which is not a valid reason for not recognizing the Armenian genocide.

sorry for getting carried away...

Grimes · 2 years ago

You could also contact their ISP, but if they are outside the country blacklist are the only way to go most of the time.

Dan · 2 years ago

awesome tip. Does this work for spammers outside the US?

Martin SelfHelp · 2 years ago

great info, thanks! i recently had some spammers on my site, they just kept posting the same thing over and over with a bunch of garbage links. If i had read this article sooner, i would have reported them.

djahna · 2 years ago

So how bad is it? I mean if you get blacklisted, do you still get a chance to clear things out? What if you were blacklisted accidentally? I mean for no good reason?,,

Baby Phat · 2 years ago

Handy Tool. I'm also getting a lot of spam email from many discussion boards, since I have joined a lot of forums!

Jazztrio Jazz Supply · 2 years ago

Great tool, I was able to check if one of my sites was blacklisted or if it just fell out of the sandbox. Looks like the latter, now I need to figure this sandbox thing out. I thought it did not exist.

Jens

Michael Beasley · 1 year ago

That was nerve racking. Even though I didn't have anything to worry about.

Robert James Reese · 1 year ago

Thanks for the advice. I was worried that I had somehow gotten onto one of the spam blacklists because some emails I'm sending lately have been disappearing. But, that's not the case. Now I just have to figure out what has been happening...

Adrian · 1 year ago

I use this site to check if my domain or my mail server IP is blacklisted
http://www.myiptest.com/staticpages/index.php/c...

Gwen Stacy · 7 months ago

Strange, because I never have spammed anyone's blog (I own my own blog too, and I know how annoyign spam actually is), and I'm blacklisted by askimet, and no doubt even this comment will not get through :(

Cheers for the post though.

Joshua Dorkin · 7 months ago

You made it, Gwen.

Suparna · 2 months ago

Thank you for this articles, I was wonder that why my website is not listed in search result and I come to know about domain black listed and I try it out from the information you have given in this articles that My domain in ok good it's might be some other issue. Thank a lot