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LiveJournal coughs to their crimes, sort of
So, LiveJournal finally sort of owned up to getting blacklisted for helping spammers, as mentioned previously. This posting is their response to the situation. They say they're doing the right things, although you do have to wonder what took them so long.
They didn't name Spamhaus or properly explain why they'd been blacklisted, so I explained in the comments.
The spice must flow
Notifications are coming through now because LJ have changed the IP address of their outgoing mail server from 208.93.0.128 (the address of www.livejournal.com) to 208.93.0.49 (which calls itself mail.livejournal.net, but isn't accepting inbound mail). The blacklisting for the old address is still in place. The spammy journals specifically mentioned in the SBL listing seem to have been suspended, though.
It's not clear if this change of IP address is part of some agreement between Spamhaus and LJ or whether LJ think they can avoid the blacklist and continue to ignore complaints. If it's the latter, I'm fetching popcorn. It's the work of a few keystrokes for Spamhaus to block LJ's entire address range, and I vaguely recall they've been happy to do that in the past for people who've taken the piss.
(Disclaimer: I'm not Spamhaus, I just used to hang out on news.admin.net-abuse.email in the 1990s, when it was cool).
So, LiveJournal finally sort of owned up to getting blacklisted for helping spammers, as mentioned previously. This posting is their response to the situation. They say they're doing the right things, although you do have to wonder what took them so long.
They didn't name Spamhaus or properly explain why they'd been blacklisted, so I explained in the comments.
The spice must flow
Notifications are coming through now because LJ have changed the IP address of their outgoing mail server from 208.93.0.128 (the address of www.livejournal.com) to 208.93.0.49 (which calls itself mail.livejournal.net, but isn't accepting inbound mail). The blacklisting for the old address is still in place. The spammy journals specifically mentioned in the SBL listing seem to have been suspended, though.
It's not clear if this change of IP address is part of some agreement between Spamhaus and LJ or whether LJ think they can avoid the blacklist and continue to ignore complaints. If it's the latter, I'm fetching popcorn. It's the work of a few keystrokes for Spamhaus to block LJ's entire address range, and I vaguely recall they've been happy to do that in the past for people who've taken the piss.
(Disclaimer: I'm not Spamhaus, I just used to hang out on news.admin.net-abuse.email in the 1990s, when it was cool).
