Weird spammy domain

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Wed May 5 01:12:25 UTC 2010


On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 02:05:02PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> 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.

I sent those links on -- I'm pretty sure these should suffice, but if
not I'll let you know here.

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