Jun 22
Banned From The Internet Update
Ok kids, as you all are now familiar with, I was basically banned from participating in the Blogosphere when Akismet decided that I, Bush Mackel was indeed SPAM. I reached out to you my friends, and you responded extremely well and supportively making sure that I’m didn’t remain in your site’s SPAMbox. Thank you.
Admidst all the support and posts I was getting from you guys, I decided to e-mail Akismet and try to confront this problem head on. I wrote the following e-mail…
“I have noticed that somehow, Aksimet has flagged me as SPAM. Because just about every blog uses Akismet, I really can’t comment anywhere…Including my own blog. What [can I] do to fix this os that people don’t have to remove my comments from their SPAM sections in Akismet?”
And in very short order, (like maybe 10 minutes later) I get this response…
“Sorry about that, it should be fixed now.” – Matt
And just like that, I’m back. It for some reason fascinates me that my problem (me being SPAM that is) could be fixed so quickly with a simple e-mail saying “I’m not SPAM”. But I guess in the end, that’s all it should take. So thanks everyone, and thank you Akismet for taking care of my problem very very SUPER fast! (I still think you’re going to launch a revolution against mankind using your robot army)
June 23rd, 2007 at 2:52 am
It’d be amazing if all life’s problems could be fixed so easily….
June 23rd, 2007 at 5:32 am
You’ve said it if you’ve never said it again you’ve said it. Personally, I just wish it was so easy to cancel subscription services. (#):)
June 23rd, 2007 at 5:56 am
Glad that you’re back
hope to see some comments on my blog too 
June 24th, 2007 at 2:31 am
Good to see you back man . Even i faced this type of problem before .
June 24th, 2007 at 6:27 am
Did you fight it in a similar fashion Madhur?
June 25th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Good to see you back. But in my blog you were not in the Spam list when you commented.
June 25th, 2007 at 5:15 am
That was easy. It’s great when issues are resolved so quickly! That happened to me about a month ago it was somewhat humorous since I’ve been blogging for almost two years.
June 25th, 2007 at 6:09 am
@ Nirmal – Yeah, I think I had my problem resolved by then.
@Opal – If it was after 2 years, I might’ve laughed. Since I’ve only been hardcore at work for 2 months, a tear was shed. (#);)
June 25th, 2007 at 6:51 am
Great news! I agree, it is nice to know it is that easy. It makes sense though. Bots probably don’t send e-mails asking to be unbanned and even if they did it would probably be automatic looking with broken english.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:10 am
Ha ha ha. You raise some good points Apex. … I should create a UN-SPAM bot that just randomly tells ppl they’ve been banned and to please unban them…IN PERFECT ENGLISH.
June 25th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
That’s hilarious Bush. I guess we can count on Akismet’s customer support and I’m glad you’ll much more easily retain your Top Commentator championship.
June 25th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Ha ha. Yeah, it would be a dagger to the Top Commentators box wouldn’t it? But in truthfulness, I only write comments when I like the content, so keep writin’ the good stuff!
June 26th, 2007 at 2:58 am
Hehehe…!!! Wish life in general was so easy..!!!!
June 26th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
I mailed them once but they took about 2-3 days to correct it .
June 26th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Oh, you have to wink at them suggestively. Did I forget to mention that? (#);1