Spam error

[cressean]

My comment to 'How to protect your online privacy' is getting flagged as spam.
I have no links in the message.
I did a restart on my Firefox, no success.
I tried entering "Test comment", still flagged as spam.
I restarted Firefox in safe mode, outside the sandbox, with "Test comment", and still got rejected for spam.
???

Andy

[cressean]

Just tried Opera. Samesame.

[Anupam]

Can you post the comment here please?

Some word, or some matter in the comment might be triggering the spam filter. It might be rejecting the test comment, because of what you tried to post earlier.

[cressean]

I use OpenDNS for my surfing and have a parental filter set for pornography, the only one I bother with.
I received Gizmo’s email letter of 12/18 that had a number of Christmas wallpaper sites. When I tried Adnistudio Holiday Wallpapers, I received a ‘blocked domain’ message. That’s not unusual as some of these wallpaper sites have other products that get them listed.
To disable the OpenDNS filter takes some minutes for server update, so I thought I’d try something different.
I have a VPN service called Cyberghost, so I fired it up thinking that with encryption between myself and Cyberghost’s servers, OpenDNS wouldn’t see the Adnistudio domain and I should be able to pass their filters, sparing myself the 3 minute wait.
Big surprise, I got a blocked domain message anyway. Cyberghost only encrypts data? I would have thought that encryption was all or nothing.
As a further test, I downloaded anonymous server software from another outfit, Security Kiss. It performed as expected, and I was able to connect with the Adnistudio domain.
I have tested this a number of times. It’s not a fluke. Apparently IP addresses sent to Cyberghost are not encrypted.

I admit to being new to anonymous servers. Am I missing something here, some qualification I should have caught before downloading Cyberghost?
It would seem to me that encryption limitations should be pretty up front. Cyberghost would seem to be advertising security they are not delivering.

On the plus side, I now know to use my OpenDNS filters as a test of encryption success, and would suggest this as a test to further qualify anonymous services.

Thank you Anupam

[Anupam]

Its obvious, the spam filter is objecting to the word pornography. Take it out, or obfuscate it, and your comment will be posted.

[MidnightCowboy]

In fairness, this might not be obvious to everyone. I still get confused by what our filter "likes" or not in a post. It also seems to be sensitive to phrase construction so a word used in one context might by OK, but not in another. Still, the answer is to post 'em here [as above] so we can sort them out

[cressean]

Thanks Anupam. I will do some editing and repost. Have happy holidays.

[Anupam]

You are welcome.

I saw that you were able to post the comment.

Happy Holidays to you too .

[steveorg]

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[Anupam]

Originally Posted by steveorg

I'm having the same problem, but I cannot see anything objectionable in my post. I tried adding this comment to Best Free Audio-Video Format Conversion Program.

True, I also cannot see anything objectionable in that comment.

Please try to post it again, after logging in to the site with your registered ID. Please post back here, if the problem then happens again.

Were you trying to post the matter as anonymous, or after logging in to the site?