Did anybody else receive an HTML advertising page with lots of Chinese writing, images and a Macromedia Flash thing?
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)
Ed Poor WikiEN-l mailing list administrator
-----Original Message----- From: myisking01@sina.com [mailto:myisking01@sina.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:08 PM To: WikiEN-L@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] ????????8?????7.5?
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
I vote for banning. Zoe "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:Did anybody else receive an HTML advertising page with lots of Chinese writing, images and a Macromedia Flash thing? 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) Ed PoorWikiEN-l mailing list administrator-----Original Message----- From: myisking01@sina.com [mailto:myisking01@sina.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:08 PM To: WikiEN-L@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] ????????8?????7.5?
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--- "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com 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.
yes
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)
In my highest magnanimity, on the fr.list, I
* have a temporary block on any mail bigger than xx, posted by an anonymous... * when such a message is received, I consider its interest in the view of the object of the list * if it can be of any interest (even from an anonymous), I post it * if not, I flush it, but I send a message to the author stating it is a private list etc... (to avoid losing so who made a mistake)
I did not ask anybody's feeling about that, cause I don't see any diffence in this behaviour, with what I do when anybody post anything inappropriate on the wikipedia.
If not relevant, and clearly abuse, I flush If not relevant, but likely to be a mistake, I flush and put a message in the discussion page.
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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.
phma