I have noticed some things happening recently that lead me to ask some questions.
1a. If you are subscribed to follow WUWT via email, where you get emails advising you of new posts, are you still getting those emails? For example, a notice of this post?
1b. If you aren’t receiving those emails, are they in your SPAM filter?
2. If you are subscribed to WUWT via RSS feed, are you still able to read it in the reader of your choice?
3. Are you getting any sorts of SPAM, phishing, or “unsafe” website notices for any links that might be embedded in those emails or feeds?
Please leave answers yes/no in comments.
The reason I ask is that WordPress recently flagged WUWT as a high traffic site, and added extra advertising, for which I get a few cents per click. But, at the same time I’m wondering if that has come with a penalty in the form of a raised SPAM score due to that extra advertising.
As always, thanks for visiting and thanks for your support. – Anthony
1a Yes
1b Yes. I used to get these emails normally, but for some reason the spam filter doesn’t allow them now. I have to accept each email manually. It could be an AOL thing.
2 N/A
3 No
1a yes.
the rest n/a
1a Yes
Rest – n/a
1a. Yes, I receive them.
1b. No, not in the SPAM filter
2. Not subscribed to WUWT via RSS feed
3. I am not getting any sorts of SPAM, phishing, or “unsafe” website notices for any links that might be embedded in those emails or feeds.
Still getting email notifications. I’ve also noticed I’ve started getting facebook notifications to things that are maybe from a WUWT fan club? (I haven’t been clicking on them.)
Yes receiving, no problems.
Robert Bewell
Email Robert.Bewell@RaymondJames.com robert.bewell@btconnect.com
Telephone 01462 422507
Mobile 07793 435310
1a. Yes
1b. None have been sent to spam filter that I know of.
2. N/A
3. No
1a. Yes,
1.b No
2 .N/A
3. No.
1a Yes
Rest n/a
1. No email
2. Yes RSS feed by Google Reader
3. No spam or bad link advisories
Still getting every email notification and as far as the rest – have to say no or not applicable.
Even if I did get a bit of spam – just handle it like normal-block it, done.
Since this site is my ‘homepage’ it’s always open :), giving me the option of refreshing the page throughout the day or selecting the articles I want to read from email.
Thanks for your concerns Anthony.
Answers:
Q1 – I am not subscribed for email notification.
Q2 – not subscribed for RSS feed notification
Q3 – see answer to Q1 & Q2
John
1a. Yes, no problems
1a – 99% NA, 1% Yes only occasionally do I check “for follow-up” comments. Too many emails otherwise.
1b – NA.
2 -N/A
3 – I’m getting a lot of Spam on my primary email address. I have a second email address that I use for most Spam likely services, but I used my primary for Word Press login. I can’t prove WordPress was the source of contagion.
Yesterday, I spent a good deal of time auditing my computer to make sure I did not have any spyware or trojans. Win Security Essentials gave it a clean bill of health and I have cookies on manual.
But my palms got sweaty when I looked at my Networking Activity: (Win 7, Start Task Mgr, Resource Monitor, Network Tab, Network Connections and TCP Connections sub windows.) I sometimes I had >200 TCP connections to addresses like (while on WUWT), all through the svchost service
108.161.188.128 164,651 B/sec
74.125.227.73 23,262 B/sec
66.216.77.13 19,966 B/sec
184.29.150.8
some non-numerics were
s04.maildez.com.br; ads.pointroll.com, *.cabelp.bezeqint.net, *.ca.dc.openx.org, 888media.net
After some experimentation, I’ve concluded these are litter in the webpages.
Try this as an experiment. With only Word or PPT running to journal results.
Open your resource Monitor to Networks and screen shot to the journal.
Open IE, preferably to a slim web site, like Astronomy Picture of the Day. Snapshot Activity.
Then open online.wsj.com. Boing! TCP connections went from 90.
Switch back to APOD. TCP connections will decay
Switch to WUWT. TCP went from 20 to 100 decline to 30
Switch to Bishop-Hill TCP went from 30 to 80, decline to 20.
Switch to ClimateEtc TCP 20 to 40.
Switch to foxnews. TCP ramps quickly to 250 and a slow decline.
The information super-highway with your car pulling a hundred trailors. People complain of web page bloat, but page load size might be only a drop in the bucket compared to the active content after the page is up.
1a. Yes
2. No
3. No
Keep on bloggin’.
(apologies to Crum.)
1a) N/A
1b) N/A
2) N/A
3) No
1a. N/A
1b. N/A
2. Yes
3. N/A
1a-N/A
2b-N/A
2-Yes, NetNewsWire
3- No
When did request notice on the last post, after I did that the response from the server was no carrier available.
[this works for me . . http://joannenova.com.au/2012/10/man-made-global-warming-disproved/ . . mod]
Yes, receiving you loud and clear! Thankyou. I did complain a couple of weeks ago that I had missed a few days but found out that it was my server who had failed. Googlemail seems to be so much better than anyone else at sorting the spam.
1a: Yes
1b: N/A
2: N/A
3: No
1a, b n/a
2 yes, Akregator
3 no
1a. N/A
1b. N/A
2. Yes
3. N/A
1a. If you are subscribed to follow WUWT via email, where you get emails advising you of new posts, are you still getting those emails? For example, a notice of this post?
Yes, I am
1b. If you aren’t receiving those emails, are they in your SPAM filter?
I have seen a couple marked as SPAM. Not within the past week, but I did get a couple of them about 2 weeks ago.
1a: yes
the rest: N/A