more notifications problems at LJ?

[charmian]

http://news.livejournal.com/135669.html?thread=94245621#t94245621

Currently there's a notifications problem at LJ, which apparently has something to do with a third party [EDIT: possibly Spamhaus]. People are getting fairly upset about it in the comments of the news post (well, also because of the banner color scheme).

Also, LJ is currently blacklisted with Spamhaus.

http://news.livejournal.com/135669.html?thread=94199285#t94199285

[EDIT: http://www.spamhaus.org/Sbl/sbl.lasso?query=SBL104433 an example of the complaints filed against LJ.]

How significant is this development? I'm not sure about the technical aspects, but is it possible this has something to do with the notifications problem?

Feeling upset about this, some paid users are having a petition thing here:

http://enabeans.livejournal.com/11459.html

I'm surprised some people have this many paid accounts.

Comments

[charmian]

Yeah, I use gmail, and I haven't had any problems.

I wonder why all of a sudden the spambots became a problem, since LJ has had tons of spammers for ages. What could it be that LJ needs to do? Certainly, many social media sites are already full of spammers.

[azurelunatic]

There's the "Again" in that block record, which implies that this is not the first time LJ has been in trouble for this.