Email I receive: “maybe u r the 1 ‘blacklisted’ from heaven.”

• June 13, 2015
• technology  
• christianity  
• security  
• wingnuttia  

This morning I noticed an interesting series of fetches from my web site with the user-agent value

Domain Re-Animator Bot (http://domainreanimator.com) - support@domainreanimator.com

Nearly every URI was requested at least twice. One of the URIs was requested five times in a row which triggered one of my blacklisting rules. So I sent an email to support@domainreanimator.com pointing out that their crawler is rather stupid in its behavior. This is the response I received:

From: Nate Fischer <support @domainreanimator.com>
Subject: Re: Your web crawler is broken
Mailed-by: email.freshdesk.com

Hi Kurtis Rader,

I'm afraid u r the grosssly imcompetent 1... i pray sum day u accept jesus as ur lord n savior.  maybe u r the 1 'blacklisted' from heaven. 

I am not making this up. That email is a direct copy-paste from my inbox. I think that will stand as the most unprofessional response I will ever receive from a company. For some context the URI that was fetched multiple times in quick succession was my blog post Yet another Christian who can’t resist proselytizing in the wrong context. Apparently Nate is a God fearing, everyone but me is going to hell, Jesus freak.

Also, as you can see from their website it appears the business model is to assist scumbags in performing “search engine optimization”. Which itself deserves the Internet Death Penalty. So that user-agent value is now in my blacklisting rules:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Domain\sRe-Animator\sBot