Poor, Edmund W wrote:
Did anybody else receive an HTML advertising page with lots of Chinese writing, images and a Macromedia Flash thing?
Yes.
I don't think it came from a signed-up contributor -- or even an anonymous Wikipedian. Rather, it seems an abuse of the e-mail list.
The list is set -- or should be -- to accept posts only from addresses that are subscribed. Perhaps you could recheck that.
Alternatives:
- Do nothing (it may have been a fluke)
- Ban myisking01@sina.com (the address that sent the advertisement)
- Other (please specify)
I would either do nothing (because I'm lazy) or ban that address.
There's a chance, I suppose, that this person was a serious Chinese person trying to talk to us. Or it might have just been Chinese spam, which I get some of every day of the week.
--Jimbo