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MacSlash Up at macslash.org

Posted by pudge on from the welcome-back dept.

M. Uli Kusterer writes "After the recent problems with its .com domain expiring and the notice from dotster being eaten by mac.com's over-eager spam filter, MacSlash now has registered the www.macslash.org domain. So, tell your friends and surf over there again :-)" It came back up for me over the weekend. Read of the events that led up to this. The short of it: mac.com, without MacSlash's knowledge, filtered as spam their domain renewal notice, and someone swiped the domain when it expired.

3 of 26 comments (clear)

  1. Bulk Spam Filter... by appletag · · Score: 2, Informative

    It seems Dotster (his registrar) sends a fair amount of bulk mail asking people to switch to their service. It seems Apple filtered them due to their "bulk" status. Alot of spammers avoid this by using alot of unique addresses to avoid classification as "Bulk SPAM". This is probably why you see a fair amoung of SPAM on mac.com

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  2. Could we get the SlashBox fixed? by Mononoke · · Score: 2, Informative
    The MacSlash slashbox still links to MacSlash.com, and hasn't been updating, either.

    fyi

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  3. Dotster's spam biting back... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I would have thought that dotster would have known that their email wasn't accepted by mac.com... I believe that a fairly significant chunk of folks use that address.

    (also, I find it ironic that the guy from dotster says that he's getting a bunch of email about the problem. At least that email was written by actual people!)