Brion Vibber saith:
The wikidown address has been getting spam in the last few days... I don't know if Lee still has it forwarding to his beeper, but that could be awful annoying. :P
Suggestions?
Contact the spammers and say that this isn't a personal e-mail address and that any advertisements will be ignored? 'Contact' meaning go to the spammers' website and find a e-mail address, not (of course) reply to the spam. Okay, maybe that's not the best idea...
Ask for the message to be quoted in its entirety? I myself already do that and most others likely do. This is simpler than asking for 2pi, "managing flamingos", etc. in the message, and serves the same purpose.
Change the wikidown address, say, to wiki.down@bomis.com? Or preferably wikidown@wikipedia.org and set mail.bomis.com as a backup MX? I doubt anyone has the wikidown address in his/her address book, so it wouldn't be hard to change the address.
Is it a virus or HTML mail? Virus spam and HTML mail often contain large attachments. If we require that the wikidown mail be in plaintext, most people can do that, and there should be enough people reporting to make up for those who can't send plaintext (if any).
Best idea: if the wiki's down in the sense of blocked database - not in the sense of server crashed and the page won't load - let larousse automatically send e-mail to an address at bomis.com that's hidden to the public.
-Geoffrey
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