[Klug-general] [ot] website blacklisted

[Peter Apps]

Feel free. I would like to add a page promoting my book so if you find a 
solution please let me know. 

Peter

On Sun 05 Feb 2012 12:58:05 James Blake wrote:
> Peter, this is an absolute corker.  Do you mind if I quote you names when
> I'm doing education sessions about automatic parsers failing?
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Jimmy
> 
> On 5 Feb 2012, at 12:23, Peter Apps wrote:
> > HI,
> > 
> > I found it difficult even setting up a Facebook account. It turned out
> > the problem was because of my surname - Apps. I tried setting up a page
> > and it was removed warning me not contravene their rules again.
> > 
> > I still don't know what the problem was and I was even planning an
> > advertising campaign on Facebook.
> > 
> > I just found them extremely unhelpful and I used Google Ads instead.
> > 
> > Peter.
> > 
> > On Sun 05 Feb 2012 11:44:38 James Morris wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> Just wondering if anyone has any experience with this. Links to my
> >> site on Facebook are classified as malicious by Facebook's "link shim"
> >> mentioning surbl.org. Inputting my domain name into the surbl.org
> >> checker says it is blacklisted and I should submit a removal request.
> >> 
> >> I feel really reluctant to do so. They want my contact details, full
> >> address and telephone number, email headers for 'typical messages that
> >> advertise my site' sent from my sites email address
> >> (james at jwm-art.net) (which is subscribed to a number of development
> >> lists and arts lists), and for me to add a page to my site detailing
> >> my policy regarding advertising using unsolicited emails.
> >> 
> >> All this over http and without any mention of their privacy policy.
> >> There doesn't seem to be any other way of contacting them to discuss
> >> the problem without providing all this data. They have a moderated
> >> 'discuss' list but my subscription request as far as I know has been
> >> ignored.
> >> 
> >> It's making me really cross. Seems like there's nothing that can be
> >> done without submitting to them.
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> James.
> >> 
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