Websense are blocking me, again…

Extract from e-mail, follows. I am being polite, to see how far it gets me. I find the below-cited issue with stemming – viz: that multiple versions of the same URL, distinct by merely a trailing slash, are treated differently – I find that rather annoying.

More updates will be posted as/when the situation warrants.

Subject: Re: Suggest a Change to the Websense URL Database
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:56:16 +0000
To: “Websense DB Update” <databasechange@websense.com>

Hello again!

In March 2004 I wrote to you, explaining that my website had been miscategorised by Websense; you speedily corrected the matter, and I attach a copy of your response to me, below.

I have once again begun to receive reports from friends that my website is oddly categorised – it appears that many subdirectories of my website still beat the designation of “Hacking”, as opposed to “Computer Security” – or, indeed, “Pictures of Alec’s Friends” which some of them are.

For instance: here are the results of three separate lookups that I have just performed, using the tool at [www.websense.com] – note that the first two URLs differ only in that the second has a trailing “slash”:

Products > Resources > Site Lookup Tool
Results for http://www.crypticide.com/users/alecm
URL: http://www.crypticide.com/users/alecm
Category: Computer Security <---------- GOOD: SECURITY RESEARCH!
Database version: 92160
Database date: 07 Dec 2004
Product used: Websense Enterprise v5.1

Products > Resources > Site Lookup Tool
Results for http://www.crypticide.com/users/alecm/
URL: http://www.crypticide.com/users/alecm/
Category: Hacking <----------- BAD: HACKING? FOR THE SAME URL?
Database version: 92160
Database date: 07 Dec 2004
Product used: Websense Enterprise v5.1

Products > Resources > Site Lookup Tool
Results for http://www.crypticide.com/users/alecm/albums/
URL: http://www.crypticide.com/users/alecm/albums/
Category: Hacking <--------------------- BAD: HACKING?
Database version: 92160
Database date: 07 Dec 2004
Product used: Websense Enterprise v5.1

I would be grateful therefore if you would kindly PURGE ALL references for crypticide.org and crypticide.com from your database, so that we can start over again, classifying it – if you classify it at all – as a security research site.

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