Weird spammy domain

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:58:19PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Mon, 3 May 2010, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 
> > Spot and I received some reports about the fedorproject.org site.  We
> > referred this to Red Hat's legal department, and they're looking into
> > it.  However, given the site's origin it may take a while to see any
> > effects from that work.
> >
> > What technical steps might we want to take with regard to this site in
> > the meantime?  I would feel comfortable with the Infrastructure team
> > doing whatever they deem appropriate to protect our users or potential
> > users, to whatever extent we can.
> >
> 
> We'll see if it sticks, I've put in a redirect (shift refresh to see it).
> If anyone has a problem with it let me know and I'll remove it.  I'm not a
> fan of mucking up our configs with stuff like that (others feel the same)

So interestingly...

Our legal counsel sent me an email admiring the team's fast response,
and a helpful email we got from a community member to get Red Hat
Legal in touch with the folks at Hostgator.

Legal did run into one unexpected problem, which is that the security
folks at Hostgator get the expected "This is a spam site" message, so
they can't view the problem for themselves.  (I think that's partly
why the fast response was so impressive.)  Is there a way for a viewer
to forcibly see the original page content so that discussion with
Hostgator can proceed?  Or would we need to lift the block?

Alternately, are there any legitimate sites that we know are blocked
by the redirect?  I would expect not, else you might have chosen not
to do one, but if so, that would also help in those discussions.

As I mentioned, I think the Infra team is in the best position to make
the call on what's appropriate to do.  If you feel doing that redirect
isn't the best thing to do, you can choose to let Legal handle it from
their side, and revert the change.

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