Weird spammy domain

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Tue May 4 19:05:02 UTC 2010


On Tue, 4 May 2010, Ricky Zhou wrote:

> On 2010-05-04 12:45:03 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > 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?
> In my email to spot, I sent a screenshot taken with browsershots.com:
>
> http://api.browsershots.org/png/original/69/69405a6d33d52c163c468898edf8a70e.png
>
> We can also remove the redirect if they'd like to see it.
>
> > 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.
> I don't think so - Mike put in a block based on referers containing
> fedorproject, so only typo-squatting sites should be affected :-)
>

I can also always disable the redirect if it's important for them to
actually see what is going on.  Alternatively you can send them here:

http://mmcgrath.fedorapeople.org/trix/

I've recreated the site you get if you view source on the fedorproject.org
site.

	-Mike


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