As of 1:35 PM EST today, protein wisdom is still being blocked by Websense. This despite their response yesterday that the site would be re-classified, as noted here:
The site you submitted has been reviewed and the categorization has been changed to Message Boards and Clubs. This update should be available in the next publication of the database.
Apparently, the site was once again submitted to Websense as having adult content—likely by the same person who submitted the URL initially.
Please visit Websense, take a moment to register, and request that https://www.proteinwisdom.com be moved out of the adult content category. Until such time as that happens, I won’t be posting with any regularity.
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update: latest email from Websense
Mr. Goldstein,
Thank you for writing to Websense.
A new database is published every weekday; the database with the correction made below is # 2272 and is currently available for download. To ensure proper filtering of the site https://www.proteinwisdom.com, please make sure that your Websense product has database # 2272 or higher.
Thank you for your inquiry,
The Websense Database Services Staff
I have no idea what this means.
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update 2: After calling the company, I’ve been assured that the site has been re-classified. However, because it takes 24 – 48 hours for the new database to propagate, the problem could still linger for another day or two.
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update 3: The latest email, from the Database Supervisor at Websense:
Mr. Goldstein,
Thank you for speaking with me earlier today regarding your site […]
They have both been recategorized today under News and Media, where they will stay for good. Please allow for another 48-72 hours for this update to propogate to end-users, as it is the normal time frame for the new database to be created and uploaded tomorrow and then downloaded and installed across the all of our client’s networks.
Jef, I wrote them yesterday. Their response is below;
Mr. XXXX,
Thank you for writing to Websense.
The site you submitted has been reviewed and the categorization has been changed to Message Boards and Clubs. This update should be available in the next publication of the database.
If you would like to access this site in the meantime, we recommend that you contact your organization’s Websense administrator and request to have either the category or the specific URL custom-permitted.
Thank you for your assistance,
The Websense Database Services Staff
From the wording I’d guess that theyre not going to unblock it until whenever they update their database..
They won’t answer my question about how frequently they update their database, though my guess is they do so rather frequently; and yesterday, someone emailed me to tell me they were getting through again.
Jeff, I got the same response yesterday, and I renewed my request today. Sorry you have to put up with all this.
FWIW, you appear to be catagorized as “network errors” at the present time.
What the fuck is Websense?
They won’t even let me register –apparently none of my email addresses are good enough…
Sorry Jeff…
Still says “adult content” for me. I cleared my cache and then double-checked on a different browser.
I’d say you definitely belong in the “Advocacy” category (“promote change or reform in public policy, public opinion, social practice, economic activities and relationship”).
Or Entertainment (you’re very entertaining. Pappy likes the slappy).
Or Illegal or Questionable … umm, not quite …
No wait … News & Media. There it is.
Then again, they have a category for Personal Websites (“Sites published and maintained by individuals for their personal self-expression and ends.”)
There’s always Tasteless (“Sites with content that is gratuitously offensive or shocking, but not violent or frightening.”)
Hell, I’d go with Miscellaneous/Uncatagorized. Can’t go wrong there, buddy.
If I’d remembered to disregard all that “i” before “e” stuff when spelling protein I’d have gotten the “adult content” results.
[slinks off with remedial dictionary]
Still LMFAO at “News & Media”.
Done did it.
Good Luck
I’m in! “Alternative” lifestyles looked attractive.
Jeff
This communication makes sense in the following context – I’ll leave you to hash out the signifiers/signifieds and the philosophy of language, meta-communications and the like:
They think you’re a client running Websense filtering software, like a library or a corporation, or even a concerned citizen-journalist-parent, not the proprietor of a website trying to get his site listed correctly.
Should we go around like fascist little bitches and submit that all moonbat websites are “adult” and thus have to put up with the same bullshit?
Me either.
Hoodlumman,
Actually, I’ve been thinking that it’s much more likely that this was done by someone on the far right. After all, a lefty probably won’t have much experience with web censor tools, but a far-righty probably would. As we are all aware, Jeff has had his conflicts with some of those types recently, so it makes sense that someone on that side of the fence is involved (probably one of those incredibly uptight commenters).
Let it also be said that, lefty or righty, it’s childish to take similar actions against someone suspected of being the source of this stupidity. Best to leave it to karma to straighten things out.
Turing: Enough. See? Karma talking to ya right there! Bam!
Holy shit. This is the reason I can’t get to your site from work. And just as a heads up, they block anything under the heading message boards and clubs as well. Of course, you may be happier without the old shank pissing around your site.
Well, I talked to the database supervisor today and he has agreed to list me under “news,” so you shouldn’t have any problems. Just give it a few days.
News & Media???
I would have gone with Entertainment (or Tasteless, if you had any balls). News & Media is just so obvious.
I wonder who is responsible? I have some ideas, but I’m not airing them here.
And yes, you were suddenly blocked mid-day at the office yesterday.
SW: pool, as in “Somebody sure pissed in the pool.”
I thought it was just the firewall at work.
spamword: turned
Yeah, you want to be under news and media Jeff. Message boards and clubs are blocked by my employer.
I’ll check the site from work tomorrow.
Well, Jeff, I can now get through, despite Websense, from the federal agency where I work, not that I would ever do that during business hours.
AAhhaa!
please unblock this web sense so I can see what my mom send me because she said it is important