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(a)bomis.com? Or preferably
wikidown(a)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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-Geoffrey Thomas
geoffreyerffoeg(a)yahoo.com
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