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I say this with all due respect, and fully expect that this is just a misunderstanding due to me misinterpreting the sentence. ------------ sanjeppu

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Offtopic ok but: Would be handy if anchor links downmodded would also appear grey. Now they really stand out.

Agreed.

Also offtopic, are .biz and .info domains used for anything that isn't a scam? Anyone seen a legitimate website hosted at .biz/.info?

Is it just me that has a mental filter "Never click on .biz .info .name"

off the top of my head, http://z80.info/ http://mta.info/ http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/

edit: I still think .info should have been .nfo and been restricted to ANSI art.

My personal website is a .name

I assure you I'm not trying to sell anyone anything, I just couldn't get the .com

I definitely agree with .biz though. Just looking at it invokes a scammy sensation. There are lots of good .info sites though... regular-expressions.info and magiccards.info come to mind.

My personal website was .info

Luckily I've since been able to get a decent .com (and .co.uk)

http://mamp.info

regular-expressions.info

codecon.info. erica.biz.

As a very offtopic question, is there a central registry of all the mainstream-ish companies that spam or do other unscrupulous things? Just so I can make a point of avoiding giving them money ...

I often considered creating such a directory, but there is a problem: what if a competitor tries to hurt a business by spamming in it's name? Therefore I think such a directory is not a good idea, or at least there would have to be mechanisms to prevent that issue.

I used to have a domain which had its URL included in a completely unrelated spam. A blacklisting organisation (voluntary, I think) contacted my ISP to tell them I was going on their list unless I could explain what had happened. I spent a very long, depressing email conversation explaining to them exactly what database poisoning was, and why the spammers would include unrelated URLs in a spam email. So many ways to fail at that kind of endeavour...

(The URL was for my open source project. Clearly, they didn't even check the webpage before issuing their threat.)

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