They are off the air for now, following my spam complaint.
There have been a few chanages as well to their domain registration after I complained that the domain was registered to a fake address (in an nonexistent city).
Their hosting company, 'hostingspot.biz' uses a hidden frame to display the site of 'christianhosting.com', another innocent victim. So I think that hostingspot.biz is a questionable operation as well.
So I ended up complaining to aplus.net, the next level up the chain, and apparently action was taken.
Quite possibly, problem solved.
--Jimbo
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
They are off the air for now, following my spam complaint.
I can still access http://www.wikiverse.org/
I think their application is interesting and it's a shame they send spam to advertize it. Apparently they combine each Wikipedia article with relevant news headlines. I've been doing some news headline harvesting and I wonder if such a database could be released as open contents. Or is anybody doing this already? It's really similar to an RSS aggregator, but you also generate RSS feeds from sources that don't provide one by processing HTML web pages. Can O'Reilly's Meerkat database be downloaded as open contents, just like DMOZ?
Is this a technical issue that should move to wikitech-l or a political one, and where should it be discussed?
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
They are off the air for now, following my spam complaint.
I can still access http://www.wikiverse.org/
Yes, they appear to be back on the air now. I think they have talked things over with their ISP; perhaps they gave a promise of no more spamming, or perhaps they lied and said that they were not spamming.
I think their application is interesting and it's a shame they send spam to advertize it.
I agree completely. Outside of the spamming issue, they are one of the better mirrors that I have seen.
--Jimbo
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