Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti

On 03/12/2014 Simon Phipps wrote:

I just spoke with the owner of the Apple developer account for the app. He
tells me it had been used by a subcontractor, that it was unrelated to his
real business (online TV) and that he would immediately remove the app from
the iTunes store now he's seen what they did.


Thanks, if that was serious (on his side, of course) this will indeed 
solve the problem. I see the app is no longer available at the link I 
posted earlier; this of course does not guarantee that it won't 
resurface at a different URL, but it solves the immediate problem.


It looks like that with this and with the (still pending, but with no 
objections so far) consensus on rejecting Quick Office Pro messages 
with an appropriate explanation, we are well-equipped to solve the issue.


Regards,
  Andrea.

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Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-04 Thread Marcus

Am 12/03/2014 02:34 AM, schrieb Rob Weir:

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Simon Phippssi...@webmink.com  wrote:

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Rob Weirr...@robweir.com  wrote:



Is there a way we could handle it even earlier, at the Apache server
level?   Detect the incoming link based on the referrer as ones coming
from the offending website and then redirect that to a custom webpage
where we explain to the user that we are not QuickOffice Pro?   If we
do that then we would get no (or far fewer) emails, right?



I doubt there will be a common referrer as the links on

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512?mt=8

just point to openoffice.org and the users getting through seem to be smart
enough to find a contact address.  But if there was a way to do that it
would be even better, yes.



I understand.  It should be possible to detect and redirect all
incoming website requests that originate from
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512

This could be done preferably at the Apache HTTP Server level, or
(less reliably) on our home page with a Javascript redirect:

script
 if ( window.document.referrer.indexOf(
/itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512 ) != -1 ) {
location.href = http://www.openoffice.org/new-special-page.html;;
 }

/script


ah, good idea as long as the app is still in the store - or at least the 
wrong link.


I can take care of this as soon as SVN is working again.

Marcus


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Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-04 Thread Kay Schenk


On 12/02/2014 05:34 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
 On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote:
 On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Rob Weir r...@robweir.com wrote:


 Is there a way we could handle it even earlier, at the Apache server
 level?   Detect the incoming link based on the referrer as ones coming
 from the offending website and then redirect that to a custom webpage
 where we explain to the user that we are not QuickOffice Pro?   If we
 do that then we would get no (or far fewer) emails, right?


 I doubt there will be a common referrer as the links on

 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512?mt=8

 just point to openoffice.org and the users getting through seem to be smart
 enough to find a contact address.  But if there was a way to do that it
 would be even better, yes.

 
 I understand.  It should be possible to detect and redirect all
 incoming website requests that originate from
 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512
 
 This could be done preferably at the Apache HTTP Server level, or
 (less reliably) on our home page with a Javascript redirect:
 
 script
 if ( window.document.referrer.indexOf(
 /itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512 ) != -1 ) {
location.href = http://www.openoffice.org/new-special-page.html;;
 }
 
 /script
 
 
 Regards,
 
 -Rob

I'm strongly supportive of something like this in the interim. Google
owns the name and it's clear Lee Elman has (at least) violated some
kind of trademark rules/uses. We should report this to both Google and
Apple (iTunes) at this point.

The fact that Lee Elman has decided www.openoffice.org is the Lee Elman
Web Site is directly of concern to us.

If Rob feels so inclined, I'm good with Lazy Consensus for the script
addition and whatever new-special-page.html might contain.


 
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Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-04 Thread Simon Phipps
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote:


 I just spoke with the owner of the Apple developer account for the app. He
 tells me it had been used by a subcontractor, that it was unrelated to his
 real business (online TV) and that he would immediately remove the app from
 the iTunes store now he's seen what they did.


Following up:  The app causing the unwanted e-mail traffic has now been
removed from the App Store (as have most of the other scams I mentioned in
my InfoWorld article).

S.


Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti

Marcus wrote:

In general +1. But I would like to see the complete text that should be
used as general message when rejecting mails. @Andrea: Can you state
this in a separate paragraph?


Something like http://markmail.org/message/vsonyy6jhnrgn7uq (with the 
obvious minor adjustments):

  ---
That app claims to come from OpenOffice, but this is not true. It is 
totally unrelated to the OpenOffice project http://openoffice.org ; 
please report the app to the App Store. And of course we can't help you 
since this mailing list is for volunteer support for OpenOffice users, 
sorry.

  ---


And it shouldn't be limited to users@ but should be used for all - also
for dev@.


So far we've seen the problem on the users@ list only, but I agree to 
apply it to dev@ too (messages will be even more off-topic here).


Other solutions, like the redirect based on the HTTP referrer, can 
proceed in parallel, and while they are probably overkill for this case 
they are a powerful tool which would be nice to have.


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Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-03 Thread Peter Kelly
 On 3 Dec 2014, at 9:15 am, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 On 02 Dec2014, at 21:05, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 On 03/12/14 00:01, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:
 
 The ® name for them is “Quickoffice®-Pro”.
 
 That is the name of the software.
 I've seen three or four different names for the vendor.
 
 Who then is getting this money? 
 
 Scammers.
 
 Well, maybe. Recall that Google owns Quickoffice. They distribute their 
 incorporated version as Google Docs, even for iOS. It is possible that the 
 Lee Elman I’ve contacted via LinkedIn is a “scammer.” But also perhaps not. 
 Apple’s iTunes Store is, as I noted, hardly the garden of sanity one might 
 hope to find. 

I’m willing to bet a lot of money that this is a scammer. There are literally 
hundreds of rip-off apps on the app store re-using common names, some even 
being exact copies of other apps which are stripped of their DRM and re-signed 
using the scammer’s certificate. I myself have been burnt by this, both by 
people selling copies of UX Write under different names, and also using the UX 
Write name to sell a different app (which was a copy of Dataviz’s Documents to 
Go).

Apple don’t care. You have to put in a *lot* of effort for them to take down or 
fix a case of infringement (in my case this meant personally meeting with app 
store representatives at WWDC). Usually they’ll just refer you to their legal 
department, who will then ask you to resolve the issue directly with the 
developer. And in this case it’s not even the OpenOffice trademark being 
violated - IANAL, but I would assume an incorrect link wouldn’t qualify.

Probably the only viable way to get it changed is to submit a request to 
http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstorenotices/ 
http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstorenotices/ and with 
luck they will give you the email address of the person who uploaded it. Then 
that person can be contacted and asked to change the link (which shouldn’t make 
any difference to them as they can continue to make money off of the 
QuickOffice trademark). The actual trademark violation is a separate issue, and 
one for Google/Apple to deal with.

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Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-03 Thread Simon Phipps
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote:


 I think we should be contacting Quick Office Pro about changing their
 support information if we haven't already.


I just spoke with the owner of the Apple developer account for the app. He
tells me it had been used by a subcontractor, that it was unrelated to his
real business (online TV) and that he would immediately remove the app from
the iTunes store now he's seen what they did.

S.


Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-03 Thread Roberto Galoppini
+1 and +1 on Kay's idea.

2014-12-03 0:23 GMT+01:00 Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com:


 On 12/02/2014 02:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
  There's an app for Apple devices called Quick Office Pro. It is totally
  unrelated to OpenOffice project and code. A link to it is
  https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512?mt=8
 
  They link to http://openoffice.org for user support. This results in
  many off-topic requests to the users list and in damage for the
  OpenOffice reputation; also, the app is not free, so they ask for refund
  and confuse our users. (We are trying, by the way, to get that app
  removed from the store, but it's a parallel course of action).
 
  Moderators on the users list have been considering to reject messages
  related to Quick Office Pro and to accompany rejection with a message
  explaining that OpenOffice has nothing (at a project level or code
  level) to do with Quick Office Pro, that the Quick Office Pro developers
  are abusing our support channels and that users should report the app to
  the Store where they bought it.
 
  Since there are concerns that the power to decide what to reject can be
  too subjective, I'm asking that we (subject to lazy consensus) agree
  that Quick Office Pro posts can be rejected with the explanation note
  described above. This will get irrelevant messages out of the list and
  avoid dangerous misunderstandings: I've personally replied to several
  such posts and I've seen other users get confused and believe that the
  reports applied to OpenOffice instead of Quick Office Pro, thus leading
  to even more confusion. A well-written rejection notice can be much more
  effective.
 
  If you have very, very valid concerns against this please speak up;
  otherwise I recommend that you realize that we virtually anything else
  is more important than Quick Office Pro, so if you, unlike me, have a
  lot of free time, you can spend it in more productive ways!
 
  Regards,
Andrea.

 +1 on this proposal. And...

 I think we should be contacting Quick Office Pro about changing their
 support information if we haven't already.

 
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Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-02 Thread Kay Schenk

On 12/02/2014 02:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
 There's an app for Apple devices called Quick Office Pro. It is totally
 unrelated to OpenOffice project and code. A link to it is
 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512?mt=8
 
 They link to http://openoffice.org for user support. This results in
 many off-topic requests to the users list and in damage for the
 OpenOffice reputation; also, the app is not free, so they ask for refund
 and confuse our users. (We are trying, by the way, to get that app
 removed from the store, but it's a parallel course of action).
 
 Moderators on the users list have been considering to reject messages
 related to Quick Office Pro and to accompany rejection with a message
 explaining that OpenOffice has nothing (at a project level or code
 level) to do with Quick Office Pro, that the Quick Office Pro developers
 are abusing our support channels and that users should report the app to
 the Store where they bought it.
 
 Since there are concerns that the power to decide what to reject can be
 too subjective, I'm asking that we (subject to lazy consensus) agree
 that Quick Office Pro posts can be rejected with the explanation note
 described above. This will get irrelevant messages out of the list and
 avoid dangerous misunderstandings: I've personally replied to several
 such posts and I've seen other users get confused and believe that the
 reports applied to OpenOffice instead of Quick Office Pro, thus leading
 to even more confusion. A well-written rejection notice can be much more
 effective.
 
 If you have very, very valid concerns against this please speak up;
 otherwise I recommend that you realize that we virtually anything else
 is more important than Quick Office Pro, so if you, unlike me, have a
 lot of free time, you can spend it in more productive ways!
 
 Regards,
   Andrea.

+1 on this proposal. And...

I think we should be contacting Quick Office Pro about changing their
support information if we haven't already.

 
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Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts

 On 02 Dec2014, at 18:23, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 
 On 12/02/2014 02:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
 There's an app for Apple devices called Quick Office Pro. It is totally
 unrelated to OpenOffice project and code. A link to it is
 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512?mt=8
 
 They link to http://openoffice.org for user support. This results in
 many off-topic requests to the users list and in damage for the
 OpenOffice reputation; also, the app is not free, so they ask for refund
 and confuse our users. (We are trying, by the way, to get that app
 removed from the store, but it's a parallel course of action).
 
 Moderators on the users list have been considering to reject messages
 related to Quick Office Pro and to accompany rejection with a message
 explaining that OpenOffice has nothing (at a project level or code
 level) to do with Quick Office Pro, that the Quick Office Pro developers
 are abusing our support channels and that users should report the app to
 the Store where they bought it.
 
 Since there are concerns that the power to decide what to reject can be
 too subjective, I'm asking that we (subject to lazy consensus) agree
 that Quick Office Pro posts can be rejected with the explanation note
 described above. This will get irrelevant messages out of the list and
 avoid dangerous misunderstandings: I've personally replied to several
 such posts and I've seen other users get confused and believe that the
 reports applied to OpenOffice instead of Quick Office Pro, thus leading
 to even more confusion. A well-written rejection notice can be much more
 effective.
 
 If you have very, very valid concerns against this please speak up;
 otherwise I recommend that you realize that we virtually anything else
 is more important than Quick Office Pro, so if you, unlike me, have a
 lot of free time, you can spend it in more productive ways!
 
 Regards,
  Andrea.
 
 +1 on this proposal. And...
 
 I think we should be contacting Quick Office Pro about changing their
 support information if we haven't already.
 

+1 to get “them” to stop sending folks to us. But the issue is not so simple….. 
and requires some contact with Google and also Apple, I think. The story is 
interesting.

Actually, I’m kind of surprised they are doing this. But also a correction. The 
® name for them is “Quickoffice®-Pro”. They were acquired by Google 5 June 
2012, and on 29 June 2014, after having digested them, Google discontinued the 
app from its Google Play and App Stores.*  

Supposedly, and I had thought this, Google made it all free and integrated into 
its Docs. Indeed if you click on the official Website given us by Wikipedia, 
you’ll find yourself in Google land.

Not so if you click on the link Andrea put out. Click on the “Lee Elman Web 
site” or the “Quickoffice® - Pro Support” links and you’ll get… us. 

Lee Elman is also hard to track down, at least if you only spend 10 seconds. I 
looked at the Lee Elman in LinkedIn who also does “One Nation TV” (listed on 
the link Andrea sent as also made by the same maker as Quickoffice), and got 
this guy who is the COO of One Nation TV in NYC, NY, and who does not list at 
all any mention of Quickoffice, let alone Google.

Who then is getting this money? I mean, once, long ago, and well prior to the 
acquisition by Google, I downloaded the free version of Quickoffice but surely 
there are those who are paying for it… and who’s getting it?

Recall, this product was one that Google acquired and incorporated into its 
*free* Docs. 

Apple’s iTunes Store is notorious for mixing payment, product identity, and so 
on. In this case, the issues are complicated by the fact that this is for iOS 
and not Android, though Google Docs works fine on iOS. It’s further complicated 
by them (whoever they are) sending people to us (we know who we are, at least).

And it’s further messed up by question mark: who’s getting this money? That’s 
not really of our concern, but is of concern.


I would recommend contacting Apple, Google. I tried already to connect with Lee 
Elman via LinkedIn and will send him a friendly query, to find out what’s up 
and is he responsible for sending people to AOO…. I’m curious.

Best
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Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-02 Thread Marcus

Am 12/03/2014 12:23 AM, schrieb Kay Schenk:


On 12/02/2014 02:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:


[...]

Since there are concerns that the power to decide what to reject can be
too subjective, I'm asking that we (subject to lazy consensus) agree
that Quick Office Pro posts can be rejected with the explanation note
described above. This will get irrelevant messages out of the list and
avoid dangerous misunderstandings: I've personally replied to several
such posts and I've seen other users get confused and believe that the
reports applied to OpenOffice instead of Quick Office Pro, thus leading
to even more confusion. A well-written rejection notice can be much more
effective.

[...]



+1 on this proposal. And...


In general +1. But I would like to see the complete text that should be 
used as general message when rejecting mails. @Andrea: Can you state 
this in a separate paragraph?


And it shouldn't be limited to users@ but should be used for all - also 
for dev@.


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Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote:
 There's an app for Apple devices called Quick Office Pro. It is totally
 unrelated to OpenOffice project and code. A link to it is
 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512?mt=8

 They link to http://openoffice.org for user support. This results in many
 off-topic requests to the users list and in damage for the OpenOffice
 reputation; also, the app is not free, so they ask for refund and confuse
 our users. (We are trying, by the way, to get that app removed from the
 store, but it's a parallel course of action).

 Moderators on the users list have been considering to reject messages
 related to Quick Office Pro and to accompany rejection with a message
 explaining that OpenOffice has nothing (at a project level or code level) to
 do with Quick Office Pro, that the Quick Office Pro developers are abusing
 our support channels and that users should report the app to the Store where
 they bought it.


Is there a way we could handle it even earlier, at the Apache server
level?   Detect the incoming link based on the referrer as ones coming
from the offending website and then redirect that to a custom webpage
where we explain to the user that we are not QuickOffice Pro?   If we
do that then we would get no (or far fewer) emails, right?

-Rob


 Since there are concerns that the power to decide what to reject can be too
 subjective, I'm asking that we (subject to lazy consensus) agree that Quick
 Office Pro posts can be rejected with the explanation note described above.
 This will get irrelevant messages out of the list and avoid dangerous
 misunderstandings: I've personally replied to several such posts and I've
 seen other users get confused and believe that the reports applied to
 OpenOffice instead of Quick Office Pro, thus leading to even more confusion.
 A well-written rejection notice can be much more effective.

 If you have very, very valid concerns against this please speak up;
 otherwise I recommend that you realize that we virtually anything else is
 more important than Quick Office Pro, so if you, unlike me, have a lot of
 free time, you can spend it in more productive ways!

 Regards,
   Andrea.

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Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-02 Thread Simon Phipps
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Rob Weir r...@robweir.com wrote:


 Is there a way we could handle it even earlier, at the Apache server
 level?   Detect the incoming link based on the referrer as ones coming
 from the offending website and then redirect that to a custom webpage
 where we explain to the user that we are not QuickOffice Pro?   If we
 do that then we would get no (or far fewer) emails, right?


I doubt there will be a common referrer as the links on

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512?mt=8

just point to openoffice.org and the users getting through seem to be smart
enough to find a contact address.  But if there was a way to do that it
would be even better, yes.

S.


Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote:
 On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Rob Weir r...@robweir.com wrote:


 Is there a way we could handle it even earlier, at the Apache server
 level?   Detect the incoming link based on the referrer as ones coming
 from the offending website and then redirect that to a custom webpage
 where we explain to the user that we are not QuickOffice Pro?   If we
 do that then we would get no (or far fewer) emails, right?


 I doubt there will be a common referrer as the links on

 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512?mt=8

 just point to openoffice.org and the users getting through seem to be smart
 enough to find a contact address.  But if there was a way to do that it
 would be even better, yes.


I understand.  It should be possible to detect and redirect all
incoming website requests that originate from
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512

This could be done preferably at the Apache HTTP Server level, or
(less reliably) on our home page with a Javascript redirect:

script
if ( window.document.referrer.indexOf(
/itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512 ) != -1 ) {
   location.href = http://www.openoffice.org/new-special-page.html;;
}

/script


Regards,

-Rob

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Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-02 Thread Simon Phipps
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Rob Weir r...@robweir.com wrote:

 On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote:
  On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Rob Weir r...@robweir.com wrote:
 
 
  Is there a way we could handle it even earlier, at the Apache server
  level?   Detect the incoming link based on the referrer as ones coming
  from the offending website and then redirect that to a custom webpage
  where we explain to the user that we are not QuickOffice Pro?   If we
  do that then we would get no (or far fewer) emails, right?
 
 
  I doubt there will be a common referrer as the links on
 
  https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512?mt=8
 
  just point to openoffice.org and the users getting through seem to be
 smart
  enough to find a contact address.  But if there was a way to do that it
  would be even better, yes.
 

 I understand.  It should be possible to detect and redirect all
 incoming website requests that originate from
 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512

 This could be done preferably at the Apache HTTP Server level, or
 (less reliably) on our home page with a Javascript redirect:

 script
 if ( window.document.referrer.indexOf(
 /itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512 ) != -1 ) {
location.href = http://www.openoffice.org/new-special-page.html;;
 }

 /script


Ah right, I read your initial proposal as scanning e-mails, sorry.  The
referrer would need to be a pattern since there are many App Stores all
over the place, but that should certainly reduce the number of queries.

S.


RE: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 

-Original Message-
From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 15:23
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages


On 12/02/2014 02:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
[ ... ]
 Since there are concerns that the power to decide what to reject can be
 too subjective, I'm asking that we (subject to lazy consensus) agree
 that Quick Office Pro posts can be rejected with the explanation note
 described above. This will get irrelevant messages out of the list and
 avoid dangerous misunderstandings: I've personally replied to several
 such posts and I've seen other users get confused and believe that the
 reports applied to OpenOffice instead of Quick Office Pro, thus leading
 to even more confusion. A well-written rejection notice can be much more
 effective.
[ ... ]

+1 on this proposal. And...

I think we should be contacting Quick Office Pro about changing their
support information if we haven't already.

 
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Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-02 Thread jonathon


On 03/12/14 00:01, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:

The ® name for them is “Quickoffice®-Pro”.

That is the name of the software.
I've seen three or four different names for the vendor.

 Who then is getting this money? 

Scammers.

jonathon

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Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts

 On 02 Dec2014, at 21:05, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 
 
 On 03/12/14 00:01, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:
 
 The ® name for them is “Quickoffice®-Pro”.
 
 That is the name of the software.
 I've seen three or four different names for the vendor.
 
 Who then is getting this money? 
 
 Scammers.

Well, maybe. Recall that Google owns Quickoffice. They distribute their 
incorporated version as Google Docs, even for iOS. It is possible that the Lee 
Elman I’ve contacted via LinkedIn is a “scammer.” But also perhaps not. Apple’s 
iTunes Store is, as I noted, hardly the garden of sanity one might hope to 
find. 

The issue that concerns us, Apache OpenOffice, is narrow. Whom we complain to, 
however, implies a larger issue. Eg, do we complain to Apple? To Google? to 
both? I suggested both. Rob and Simon have since also intervened with 
suggestions with immediate effect.

-louis
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Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-02 Thread jonathon


On 03/12/14 02:15, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:

  Recall that Google owns Quickoffice.

I do not assume that any of the programs carrying the QuickOffice
moniker in the iTunes store is the same program that Google distributed.

Lee Elman is just as likely to be a victim as Apache OpenOffice is.

 The issue that concerns us, Apache OpenOffice, is narrow. 
Whom we complain to, however, implies a larger issue. Eg, do we
complain to Apple? To Google? to both? I suggested both.

Attorney-General of the State of California, for violation of the
consumer protection laws in the States of California.

(There are some advantages to states that think that their legal
jurisdiction encompasses the entire known and unknown multiverse,
regardless of what residents and claimants of other legal jurisdictions
think about that presumption.)

jonathon





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Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting Quick Office Pro messages

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts

 On 02 Dec2014, at 21:43, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 
 
 On 03/12/14 02:15, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:
 
 Recall that Google owns Quickoffice.
 
 I do not assume that any of the programs carrying the QuickOffice
 moniker in the iTunes store is the same program that Google distributed.
 
 Lee Elman is just as likely to be a victim as Apache OpenOffice is.
 
 The issue that concerns us, Apache OpenOffice, is narrow. 
 Whom we complain to, however, implies a larger issue. Eg, do we
 complain to Apple? To Google? to both? I suggested both.
 
 Attorney-General of the State of California, for violation of the
 consumer protection laws in the States of California.
 
 (There are some advantages to states that think that their legal
 jurisdiction encompasses the entire known and unknown multiverse,
 regardless of what residents and claimants of other legal jurisdictions
 think about that presumption.)
 
 jonathon
 
 
 

j— 
I agree with you. I’d like, however, for the other hugely rich companies to do 
their bit and put their houses in order, as the disorder is affecting us, an 
open source entity with nothing like the resources they have. Laws in this case 
may be (ideally) impartial but getting the legal machinery to move usually 
requires big resources.

Cheers,
louis
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