Important update on notifications

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We know you've been waiting for an update on notifications, so we wanted to let you know what's going on instead of holding off until the next newsletter.

LiveJournal has been placed on a spam-block list by an external service used by several email providers. As a result, notifications that are ordinarily sent via email providers that use this

Comments

[foxfirefey]

LJTalk notifications are the best. I love them.

[banerry]

I'm not really informed enough to have an opinion on whether or not this is LJ's fault/something that could have been avoided, or something that was really unavoidable-- so I'll just say good luck, and thank you for working to fix the problem. ♥

What a GLORIOUS NEWS !!!

[0_lechim]

There IS justice in this WORLD!

Yahoo, THANK YOU!

Finally have the wrongs been corrected, and the label spamer was correctly applied.

[machineist]

To be fair, who the fuck still uses Yahoo/Hotmail/other shitty email providers? Time to be grownups and switch to Gmail, LJ.

[shutter]

grownups have their own domain.

[xotiffany]

Yep. Our webmail provider blocked LJ so I'm using my gmail account now.

[darththalia]

Ditto. And I hope I can switch back soon--I don't like how Gmail deals with LJ notifications.

[loveless]

with all these russian spammers who keep sending me private messages, that doesn't seem surprising.

[strangeanimal]

I wonder what percentage of the LJ spam being generated is Russian. For the past few months, 100% of the spam I've seen is.

[dcseain]

There was a bout of Japanese spam in comments a few months back on here, but the vast majority has been Russian, especially in PMs for the last year? or so, i think..

[cema]

Huge.

LJ team should have focused on them.

[sodoesrachael]

Yes. Yes it does.

[astragali]

No.

What happens is that spammers run botnets, which are networks of infected computers around the world. Those botnets are basically distributed super computers--they can work on breaking CAPTCHA, or performing a distributed denial of service attack, or sending spam, whatever the botnet owners want them to do. So the botrunners use the botnet to create hundreds of LJ accounts, and they upload content to them (usually advertising illegal pharmacy sites). Then the botnet sends spam directing the recipient to the LJ account, where the recipient can then purchase fake Viagra or opiates or whatever.

Shutting down the accounts eliminates the ability of spammers to sell. Once botnet ops know that LJ doesn't care, they'll just continue to abuse until someone stops them.

[luckylove]

I wish I had a supercomputer that I could use to break captchas for me. I couldn't get one of them right first time even if my life depended on it. My dyslexia partner is better at them than I am and I, as far as we know, don't have any documented language disabilities. My English sucks but that's another matter :P