The Coffee Desk flagged by McAfee

Somehow, The Coffee Desk (the site you are currently on) has earned a “yellow” rating by McAfee and their SiteAdvisor suite, due to “promotion through spam email” according to them. We don’t spam, we are unsure how exactly we got this rating, but we need help to earn back a green rating because The Coffee Desk is being blocked by commercial ISP filters thanks to McAfee’s rating, therefore stopping us from reaching our intended audience.

The theory behind this is that some people that emailed a link to us to their friends may have had that email flagged as spam by a client, and now our rating has gone down the drain because a few(?) email clients marked something with our link as spam.

We are positive this is the case, since we can assure you it is against our ethics to “promote” ourselves via spam, especially since several authors have experience in security in this manner. If you are feeling charitable, you could go to McAfee’s review for us, register(its free) and help us by leaving a positive review so others can browse the site as school or work without breaking a company policy because of proxy usage.

We love McAfee SiteAdvisor, and most of us use it on all of our browsers, but this is a case of misrepresentation of us. We aren’t pressuring anyone to help us, but if you do we’ll think of some way to reward everyone later (comment if you have any ideas in particular). We would really appreciate it.



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Anthony Cargile is the founder and former editor-in-chief of The Coffee Desk. He is currently employed by a private company as an e-commerce web designer, and has extensive experience in many programming languages, networking technologies and operating system theory and design. He currently develops for several open source projects in his free time from school and work.

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Anthony Cargile is the founder and former editor-in-chief of The Coffee Desk. He is currently employed by a private company as an e-commerce web designer, and has extensive experience in many programming languages, networking technologies and operating system theory and design. He currently develops for several open source projects in his free time from school and work.

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