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   • A440 on Fri 10 Feb 2012
   • 12:37:23 PM UTC

   RE: englishaid.net

   I rated your site as being useful and benign. Mind you, one poster claimed that you sold subscriber information to underground spammers but did not give any substantiation for this allegation, thus I ignored it.
   If it were to turn out that you did such, you would be held accountable and, believe me, people would find out.

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   • NotBuyingIt on Fri 10 Feb 2012
   • 07:00:47 PM UTC

   RE: englishaid.net

   If I contributed any adverse ratings for this site, I have withdrawn them. I encountered a group of scam web pages last August when the site was hosted on GoDaddy; I'm reasonably sure that those old phishing scams have long since been disabled, so I have removed my scorecard comment about them. As the original poster pointed out to me, the site has been move; it is currently hosted on Bluehost.

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   • NotBuyingIt on Fri 10 Feb 2012
   • 10:47:36 PM UTC

   RE: englishaid.net

   @English Aid, your site's WOT scorecard now reports all favorable ratings. I notice that McAfee SiteAdvisor still displays a caution, based upon its McAfee TrustedSource report. See
   http://www.mcafee.com/threat-intelligence/domain/d...

   You can request that McAfee re-evaluate your site. I don't know why it is rated adversely, however it may involve a past GoDaddy suspension that TrustedSource lists in the DNS history. So in your request, point out that your site has since be reinstated and subsequently re-hosted. Unlike WOT, where a site's reputation is based almost entirely upon users' ratings, the users' ratings at SiteAdvisor have virtually no effect. Although you will read the same comment on the SiteAdvisor review page that I wrote on the WOT scorecard, my comment never influenced SiteAdvisor's ratings. Unlike WOT, SiteAdvisor does not permitted users to withdrawn or edit any of the reviews which they have posted. However, my review will automatically be removed when SiteAdvisor deems it too old.

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   • AlphaCentauri on Sat 11 Feb 2012
   • 06:01:51 AM UTC

   RE: englishaid.net

   Originally posted by: A440
   Mind you, one poster claimed that you sold subscriber information to underground spammers but did not give any substantiation for this allegation, thus I ignored it.
   If it were to turn out that you did such, you would be held accountable and, believe me, people would find out.
   

   I didn't see the hacked site, so I can't speak about it specifically. But there have been some hackers who hacked sites to create spamvertised pharmacies, etc., and who stored all the "unsubscribe" email addresses people entered in a text file on the sites. So if you knew the standard directory/file name, you could enter a URL and see the thousands of email addresses people had entered hoping the spammers would actually remove them from their lists. I saw one where the same guy entered his email address over 50 times. Very sad. But no reflection on the intentions of the owners of the hacked sites.

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