Funny: wrong website blocked

We have the horrible Barracuda Filter in place on our network here at work. This isn’t the first time it has blocked one of our very own websites, but this is the first time I have remembered to take a screen capture to mark the event. Schaffs Angus Valley can’t be visited by anyone in this building, because “The Web site you are trying to access has been blocked by the Barracuda Web Filter because it is in the Spam category, access to which has been blocked by your system administrator.”

Seriously? They built the contact forms we use on these sites. Perhaps if we were granted access to Coldfusion or the ASP.net framework, we could create a better contact form. So, for the moment, it isn’t our fault that the spammers can crawl the page and auto-fill the contact us form. We’re blocking the very sites we’re responsible for allowing to send spam in the first place. Hmm…is this considered irony or just sad?

Hit the image for a close-up. Enjoy! I know I did.