On Thursday 05 December 2002 08:55, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
Did anybody else receive an HTML advertising page with lots of Chinese writing, images and a Macromedia Flash thing?
I got a subject in Chinese and two lines of HTML code. If your mail client displays lots of Chinese writing, images, and a Macromedia Flash thing, it is misconfigured. These were not in the message and should not be displayed in the message. Email is not the Web. A mail client that accesses the Net to display things in the message is broken and a security hole.
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.
My question is what you all would like me do about things like this. As your list administrator, I am happy to serve. But as AxelBoldt reminded me last month, I am not a "Moderator" and thus do not set policy.
Alternatives:
- Do nothing (it may have been a fluke)
- Ban myisking01@sina.com (the address that sent the advertisement)
- Other (please specify)
There is no sense banning that address. The probability that another spam will come from that address in a year, even if a spam comes each day, is minuscule. I suggest banning HTML mail and messages from nonsubscribers.
The IP address is not listed in any of the spam blocklists I have used, except Spamcop, which I advise against using, since it is fairly easy to maliciously list someone else's address.
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