{"id":1011,"date":"2010-03-14T14:50:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T12:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2010-03-14T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T13:15:57","slug":"another-campaign-a-new-blog-and-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"Another campaign, a new blog &#8230; and a problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the request of the UE and ICEM, we&#8217;ve launched another campaign &#8212; the second in two days &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/cgi-bin\/solidarityforever\/show_campaign.cgi?c=654\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This campaign is featured, together with other campaigns, on my new personal (not official LabourStart) <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.amnesty.org.uk\/blogs.asp?bid=972\">blog on the website of Amnesty International&#8217;s UK Section<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The problem? There&#8217;s some evidence mounting that there may be some attempts to block our campaigns again, black-listing us as spammers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Everyone who signed up to the LabourStart campaign in support of the Iraqi teachers received a threatening email from one of the targets, who claimed he&#8217;d go to the police.\u00a0 I wrote to him, as did the TUC, telling him to fuck off.<\/li>\n<li>Our ISP (1&amp;1 Internet) sent us a form letter warning us that there have been reports that we&#8217;ve been spamming.\u00a0 I replied asking for additional details but have heard nothing.<\/li>\n<li>An email I just sent to a target in our new Mexican campaign bounced back saying that the address sending it was associated with spam.\u00a0 Not sure if this is our ISP or Gmail or labourstart.org.<\/li>\n<li>One of our readers has spotted a possible attempt to block our laborlists.org address as being a source of spam &#8212; I&#8217;m investigating this now.\u00a0 This is <strong>not connected<\/strong> to our ISP, and is worrying. <strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <em>I&#8217;m less worried about this now; it&#8217;s being caused by ZoneAlarm which may be flagging up laborlists.org because it&#8217;s a new domain name, and because our domain name registrar is based in the Cayman Islands (which should set alarm bells ringing).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All this couldn&#8217;t come at a worse time, as I&#8217;m travelling for the next two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the request of the UE and ICEM, we&#8217;ve launched another campaign &#8212; the second in two days &#8212; here. This campaign is featured, together with other campaigns, on my new personal (not official LabourStart) blog on the website of Amnesty International&#8217;s UK Section. The problem? There&#8217;s some evidence mounting that there may be some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}