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Get a different domain for lj admin

Jan 20, 2007 17:38

Title
Get a different domain for lj admin

Short, concise description of the idea
Due to the amount of spam coming to me from @livejournal.com, official admin should have a different domain name.

Full description of the ideaI receive at least 50 spam messages a day to me utilizing the livejournal.com domain. I'd like to just filter the domain to a ( Read more... )

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Comments 14

ruakh January 22 2007, 21:09:58 UTC

1. Informing all users of this domain is tantamount to publishing it. You don't think spammers would catch on?

2. This would likely have the opposite effect from what is intended: users would see an e-mail from foo@bar.com purporting to be from LiveJournal, and would believe it to be spam or phishing.

adudeabides January 22 2007, 21:15:42 UTC

*nods*

Exactly.

pauamma January 22 2007, 22:08:47 UTC

Agreed. Making notification emails come from foo@bar.livejournal.com might alleviate the 2nd problem, but they'll do nothing for the first.

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abates January 22 2007, 21:40:09 UTC

The problem isn't spam *from* Livejournal, it's spammers using a fake "xxxxx@livejournal.com" email address on their spams.

There's not a lot LJ can do about that though.

logicalargument January 22 2007, 21:41:35 UTC

Maybe that explains why Mozilla Thunderbird "thinks" that my admin messages from LiveJournal (all of my e-mail notifications) "may be an e-mail scam."

jewelianna January 22 2007, 21:46:45 UTC

It seems this would only cause more confusion, so no.

tophee January 22 2007, 22:09:56 UTC

Is it not possible to add just the specific addresses, such as lj_notify@livejournal.com, webmaster@livejournal.com, and accounts@livejournal.com to your spam whitelist, rather than whole domains?

/toph

camomiletea January 22 2007, 23:00:53 UTC

There a couple more addresses from which emails may be sent, such as abuse@, support@.

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captainspam January 23 2007, 00:44:55 UTC

Given you can submit your public PGP/GPG key as part of your LJ userinfo, that's always sounded like a good idea to me, honestly, besides the added overhead on LJ's servers to sign every email it sends out (which may not be that much overhead, but I've always figured tons and tons of hashing operations can really start to add up quick). I mean, LJ could assume that if you have a key, it would sign everything. Even have an option to encrypt it if that suits your fancy.

But at least signing it would be very nice, really.