RSS Announcer is a program that helps people submit their RSS feeds to aggregators. However, it also submits it to the Boing Boing Suggest a Link form. However, we never, ever link to RSS feeds (especially not the kinds of feeds that come through the form, for stuff like insurance settlements, etc), and so this just wastes everyone's time.
The author of RSS Announcer went to great lengths to get users' feeds submitted to Boing Boing. We've got a whole ton of sekrit anti-spam stuff built into our submit-a-link form (mostly precipitated by some company that thought that sending us 400 "site suggestions" an hour advertising Polish rosaries was a great idea), and RSS Announcer gets around it.
We're going to add some more specific anti-RSS Announcer code to the form, but really, a better answer would be for RSS Announcer to just stop sending us this stuff. We're never, ever going to link to anything that RSS Announcer sends our way, so this is just a waste of everyone's time, including that of the author of RSS Announcer.
So here's the question: how do we get ahold of the author of RSS Announcer? I've emailed the WHOIS contact for the domain of the site that sells RSS Announcer, and tried calling the phone-number associated with it (it's no good). I tried looking up a current phone number for the domain contact using various white-pages and background check services, all to no avail.
Does anyone out there in interwebland know who wrote RSS Announcer and how to get ahold of her or him? The volume of junk submissions we're getting is making it basically impossible to manage the legit submissions, which means less link action on BB. If you know the person or can get in touch with her/him, email me
Update: Very important to note: there are many, many distributors of this software. I'm looking for the author, which means I'm looking for someone who knows who wrote this or can track it down.
