Reporting comments as spam

[Sticks]

In accordance with requests by Phill


I just tried to post this

This is done on my home desktop, using Firefox

On my Virgin Media Broadband

I always seem to get caught by the spam filters, whether at work, at home on broadband or on dial-up

I got this

Sorry, but your comment has been flagged by the spam filter running on this blog: this might be an error, in which case all apologies. Your comment will be presented to the blog admin who will be able to restore it immediately.
You may want to contact the blog admin via e-mail to notify him.

According to IP Chicken

IP address is given as 82.39.51.206

[The Bad Astronomer]

Hmmm. The problem with whitelisting an IP address is that as soon as you switch your computer off, the IP is reset.

I have whitelisted some domain names for other folks. let's see if that works, and then maybe we can go from there.

[Sticks]

still getting caught

[Sticks]

OK

From my works PC on IE6 and Windows XP

I even changed my ID from Sticks to my normal name and blanked out the website address.

In the body of the text I have used only text and no html

And still it gets me

Is anyone from outside the US getting through OK ?

[JanieBelle]

Tried to post on the Faith as Small... thread

"It's interesting that this came up again just now.

As it happens, I saw nine real angels yesterday at my Aunt Helen's funeral, come to carry her to her final rest, and they had nothing to do with visions, or invisible people, or pareidolia.

They were United States Marines."

As I have been consistently getting, I got:

"Sorry, but your comment has been flagged by the spam filter running on this blog: this might be an error, in which case all apologies. Your comment will be presented to the blog admin who will be able to restore it immediately.
You may want to contact the blog admin via e-mail to notify him."

Running a Windows machine, Firefox 2.004, Adblock Plus 0.7.5.1, United States English Dictionary 2.0.0.6.

Just had a thought and tried IE7, samey same, so it doesn't look like it's my browser, specifically.

I started having problems a while back when I got blacklisted for a spam worm I had been infected with, and I was getting redirected to an informational page about that, with two links to two different black lists. Following the links, one of them took me to a page that showed the last time the outgoing spam was detected from my IP address.

Once I got the worm gone, I commented daily knowing I'd be re-directed, just so I could check that page for a week or two before requesting de-listing, just to avoid being re-listed. I was all good and about to make that request when you revamped the site.

Right about that time, my ISP changed my IP address, and the above is the message I get now, with no links to the blacklists.

It's plain black text on a plain white page, and the url bar shows this:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/wp-comments-post.php

[Roy Batty]

Hmmm. The problem with whitelisting an IP address is that as soon as you switch your computer off, the IP is reset.

I have whitelisted some domain names for other folks. let's see if that works, and then maybe we can go from there.

Can be true but not always the case. I've had the same IP address for at least a month now (also use major UK ISP 'Virgin Media' which assigns dynamic IPs) & I also power the cable modem down each day. I've not experienced any permanent problem posting to the blog btw, although it does often hang on a blank page after posting & I have to access the page again to check.

You can find what the world sees your IP address as (ie regardless of whether you're behind a NAT router or not), by visiting Gibson Research's Shields Up! page... it's also a damned good site for information & checking your pc/network security!

[Sticks]

It has caught me again

From my works PC, IP 195.92.40.49

[Roy Batty]

But Sticks, of course he's going to block everybody from Newcastle...

[Sticks]

But Sticks, of course he's going to block everybody from Newcastle...

Why?

[boppa]

one thing i did notice- the blog really doesnt like opera (at least 6.02 on win 98se) at all

it renders really badly and copy/paste certainly doesnt work well at all..

(my quotes appeared but not anything outside the quotes!!)

[Maurizio Morabito]

Phil

My comments are marked as "spam" wherever I post them from (work, library, home) so I don't think it's a matter of IP addresses.

I am using IE6. I have tried with a dummy name, e-mail and URL but nothing changed.

So for the time being I "only" have to wait for you to let my comments through. A bit of a pain for us both.

Is there a way you can whitelist "me"?

You have my private e-mail address, from the comments and from our exchange about National Geographic some time ago

- Maurizio Morabito http://omnologos.wordpress.com

[Sticks]

It has done it again on the blog about PZ being sued

[Spacewriter]

it's gettin' old having my comments flagged as spam over on the blog. It's one of the reasons I don't post many comments any more...

tough to partake in the "give and take" when my "give" has to wait in the penalty box...

[Sticks]

Guess what

[Sticks]

And again . . . .

[Sticks]

My post has been caught in the spam filter

[JanieBelle]

Still getting the same message, and my comments aren't getting posted at all anymore.

It's getting to where I don't even bother much anymore.

[Maksutov]

Still getting the same message, and my comments aren't getting posted at all anymore.

It's getting to where I don't even bother much anymore.

Same here. Spinning your wheels may be fun for NASCAR victors, but it's not enjoyable when trying to comment on a blog.

No point in even trying anymore. Just a waste of time and typing.

CIBM*
BioStar mainboard
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU
768MB RAM
Windows 2000 SP4
Firefox 2.0.0.6
AVG 7.5.485
AdAware 2007 0018.0000
Spybot Search & Destroy 1.3
SpywareBlaster 3.5.1

*Computer I Built Myself

[Sticks]

This is more a test post

This system is not allowing me to post a new thread

[JanieBelle]

I'm still getting the same message, but at least my comments seem to be getting posted eventually. I hope that means improvement.

Now I always feel a little guilty that I've created more work for Dr. BA.

[Sticks]

I'm still getting the same message, but at least my comments seem to be getting posted eventually. I hope that means improvement.

Now I always feel a little guilty that I've created more work for Dr. BA.

but by the time they are posted, everyone has moved on and will not read back over old posts to see if ours have appeared. We might as well not post anything, because even if they are released they are never read.

It would help if they appeared at the bottom and not where they would be had they not got intercepted.

[JanieBelle]

Well, if nothing else, it at least prompted me to register here.

That's something, right?

[Gillianren]

Indeed it is, and welcome aboard!

[Maksutov]

Well, if nothing else, it at least prompted me to register here.

That's something, right?

Good blog, good blog, gets donut!

Welcome to the BAUT, JanieBelle.

Read the FAQs, especially the rules, and have fun.

Nice avatar, BTW.

[Sticks]

My comment about the Peruvian impact has been labled as spam

[Frog march]

arrrrrr, the software just recognises yer pirateness, sticks. Just accept yeeer yernin' for the high seas and the taste of good rum, like the rest of the bauters.......

[JanieBelle]

Thanks for the welcome everybody.

Maksutov, that's from an 1892 painting by John Collier entitled "Lilith", and is one of my favorite paintings ever. It currently hangs in The Atkinson Art Gallery in Southport, England. It's oil on canvas.

Though the character was plagiarized from elsewhere, in Judeo-Christian mythology she was Adam's first wife, made from the dust of the earth (as opposed to a rib from Adam) and was Adam's equal. When Adam told her to get on her back to um... perform her wifely duties... she refused because of his lousy attitude and said "I will not lie below", demanding to be treated equally. When Adam acted like a butt-head, she left him and he went sniveling to Yahweh for a new wife that would do as he told her.

She got quite the bad rap and was eventually accused of all sorts of evil stuff (bringing disease, famine, etc. etc.) and eventually she was mostly erased from the official mythos. The argument can be made that the Christian Lucifer is a derivative of the idea of Lilith masculinized so as to avoid the appearance of too much power vested in and wielded by a woman.

In any event, she wasn't the submissive and subordinate field lily that Eve was, though it's interesting that the two of them got the blame for basically every bad thing ever to happen after that. Eve gets the blame for the bad actions of humans because of that whole fruit/snake/fall thing, and Lilith got the blame for all the bad natural events which were scurrilously pronounced to be children of sordid affairs she was later accused of having with demons.

Personally, I think she's the most interesting character in that particular mythology so I carry that painting as my avatar everywhere I go. I like her attitude.

BTW, her demand for equal treatment is why the Lilith Fair is so named I understand.

[JanieBelle]

...she was Adam's first wife, made from the dust of the earth (as opposed to a rib from Adam) and was Adam's equal. ...

P.S. That's why the current version of Genesis goes out of its way to point out that Eve was made from Adam's rib - to reinforce that she was subservient to Adam.

[JanieBelle]

Back on topic...

I'm still getting reported as spam each time I comment.

Just so y'know.

[Maurizio Morabito]

I still have all my comments marked as spam in the BA blog. I have gone as far as to create a separate blog where I can actually record them for future memory, instead of losing them all to the hope that Phil Plait finds the time to de-spam my messages

http://omnograms.wordpress.com/

As I live in the UK too I wonder if there is any problem with that. In fact, even if I post a comment from work in Central London, it gets marked as "spam". I am going to try from a library next week to confirm the hypothesis.