To be honest, when I created my very first fanlisting I never thought the day would come when I decided to give it away. I just could not fathom the thought of adopting out a fanlisting. Why would you do that? And yet here I am planning on finding new homes for a few of my babies.

A little while back one of my listings was removed from the Animefanlistings.org network, it had been troubled but I never knew until it had been removed and opened for application. Even then, the only reason I knew something was up was because I had posted on the TAFL message boards checking to make sure an application form I sent in went through and was shocked to be informed that my email was bouncing. On the off-chance that something had been troubled I checked the network update blog and was astonished to see my Naruto & Temari fanlisting had been troubled, and with no response, was removed. A thorough check of my email account showed that I had received no notice of this but that I had received a lot of emails about fat burners and other things I neither care about or understand.

As you might have guessed, my emails at nanashi-inc.net have been flooded with spam. To be honest, it’s a rather overwhelming amount of spam and it’s been happening for a few months now.

Thankfully my NaruTema fanlisting has been re-added to the TAFL network, and to avoid a repeat, I’ve changed my contact email at the networks to a non-domain email account. While doing this I was determined to track down the flood of spam and soon identified the culprit: DodosMail a php mail form that I used for my contact forms at various fansites, fanlistings, and other sites here on the N-I.net network. Apparently the script is insecure and allows for multiple ways for spammers to abuse it. I’d used DodosMail for years now, literally, and everything seemed fine but when I thought about it I realized that there was a noticeable increase of spam to the email accounts associated with the form. After deleting it and installing Jem’s php mail form there was a very noticeable drop in spam. Instead of pages and pages of spam delivered by the hour (including mailer-daemon notices for emails I never sent) there was just the odd handful.

While fooling around with the mail forms I started noticing a lot of listings whose coding was just embarrassing. Stuff like using tables in lieu of divs, deprecated coding, in-code styling that should be in a stylesheet, and so on. I started fixing it up listing by listing and while doing so I started thinking about the listings I owned as I worked on them. While doing this I came to the realization that for some of these, while I’m still a fan, my interest has waned dramatically. In some cases I can’t help but wonder if the fanlisting really would be better off in the care of someone else. After those depressing thoughts I realized that if I’m thinking those things then they probably would be better off with someone who could better love them and properly care for them.

Which brings us to the point of this post. It is with a heavy heart that I am placing the following fanlistings up for adoption:

• Objects: Samsung SCH-a950^x
• Anime/Manga Songs: s-CRY-ed: All I Need is Love (insert song)^x
• Anime/Manga Songs: s-CRY-ed: Drastic My Soul (ending theme)^x
• Songs: Bands/Groups: I’m So Sick (Flyleaf)^±
• Songs: Bands/Groups: Move (Thousand Foot Krutch)^x
• Food/Drinks: Hershey’s: 5th Avenue^x

^± – means the KIM list has been contacted
^x – means the listing will be closed if no new home is found

I’ll be posting adoption threads for these listings at the TFL and TAFL message boards shortly and will be contacting the members of the listings in a week or so.

If you are a fan of one (or more) of these subjects and would like to adopt them please visit this page to read my guidelines for adoption (very basic) and fill out the application form located there.