Remember my recent post: The Top 10 Blogs-Who Cares? where I asserted that there was nothing magical (or in some cases all that interesting) about the Top 10?
Well, No.6, Lifehacker, on that list have excelled themselves with a recent post on how to stop spam from foreign countries, where the main thrust is basically to block any countries that are not the United States from sending you email.
Yep, undeveloped countries like Poland should be ticked off your ‘receive’ list as they are the source of all known spam. Really.
Like I said, there’s nothing special about the ‘A-list’, in fact quite the reverse. Would you have posted something as embarrassingly brainless as this?
Found on O’Flaherty blog again 
12 users commented in " Lifehacker Wave Goodbye To Their Credibility "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI don’t know whether to just ignore it or explode.
The guy who wrote it actually left Lifehacker the same day.
Really? I wonder if the two facts are linked, perhaps it was his goodbye note?
I think a deletion & retraction are in order to be honest…
Quite ridiculous really.
I just read that whole thing. I know I have Lifehacker bookmarked somewhere or as a Technorati favorite. Goodbye Lifehacker.
To further enhance this “hack”, I would suggest they declare Florida a foreign country.
[...] got behind in my reading due to other commitments and want to thank Chris at Blog-Op for bringing this to my attention. More than four days have passed. No one from Lifehacker has [...]
Their silence is deafening…
I love one of the comments on the post that asks what the next tip will be: use ‘@’ as a wildcard in your spam filter and reduce spam to zero?
Haven’t they even looked at the Project Honey Pot stats? Sheesh.
Chris, RT, & I are starting an angry mob, and will attack LifeHacker when they least expect it!
Chris is bringing the torches, I’ll bring the pitchfork, RT is going to hurt their sides by telling his scud missile in the outhouse story.
We still need some shovels, pick axes, rakes, and a few more torches & pitchforks!
Who’s in??
DOWN WITH LIFEHACKER!!
LifeHacker’s reply:
“Gina Trapani, Lifehacker Editor says:
Hi all – just to address your concerns: Rick wrote this post up based on a reader tip, as detailed in the post. The 95 percent figure was a direct quote of an email tip we received, which is why it was included as a blockquote. Rick did not research the numbers John mentioned, and I’m sorry if the reader’s wording offended you.
Like everything else you find on Lifehacker, take or leave it, depending on whether or not the tip helps you.”
Oh well that’s alright then.
Translation: ” We at Lifehacker don’t check anything first, we just post it. If you don’t like that, piss off.”
What a joke.
**shakes his head**
It’s not bad that they made a mistake but it’s another thing to not take back what they said. Even if they didn’t research the numbers, posting it obviously endorses the readers’ view.
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