That's the first time I've seen "Microsoft" written in CamelCase.
-- Alvaro On 25-01-2009, at 20:47, "brewhaha%40edmc.net" <[email protected]> wrote: > I used hotmail once, for a throwaway account on a mailing list that > I did > not want to be associated with. Making it reject spam from MicroSoft > was > doable at the time, and it was still an insurmountable pain to use > with > Lynx. Spam is probably on side-bars there, now. Hint for moderators: > Learn > how to set up an account from your ISP. All communication involves > risk. > > "Alvaro García" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> You have Gmail and your spam filter works badly? Hm, strange. >> >> >> -- >> Alvaro >> >> On 18-01-2009, at 13:08, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Those of you whose spam filters work as badly as mine are no doubt >>> familiar with the genre of 419 spam emails. You know the thing, >>> "Dear >>> Respected Sir. I am the Minister for Trade of Nigeria, and I wish to >>> embezzle a BILLION dollars AMERICAN..." One element of these that >>> you >>> occasionally see is "supporting evidence" - the writer tries to give >>> the impression the email is legitimate by linking to an entirely >>> respectable but irrelevant news story which proves the person >>> they're >>> claiming to be actually exists, in the hope that this will make the >>> whole thing seem legit. >>> >>> Last month, I got one purporting to be from Maria das Neves, the >>> former Prime Minister of São Tomé and Principe. What immediately >>> caught my attention, as I went to hit delete, was that it linked not >>> to a newspaper article about her, but the Wikipedia article (which >>> it >>> referred to as "my profile") >>> >>> This was on 15th December. And sure enough, if we look at the >>> December >>> statistics for that page, we find that about four hundred people >>> followed the link over a couple of days: >>> http://stats.grok.se/en/200811/Maria_das_Neves >>> >>> There's a second, smaller, spike at the end of the month; a second >>> run? If we look back there's also one around November 24th, and one >>> yesterday (January 17th). >>> >>> An entirely unexpected application of stats.grok.se, there! >>> >>> On a more relevant content note, it seems most of these "waves" led >>> people to add warnings about it to the article: >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maria_das_Neves&diff=258161984&oldid=251397327 >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maria_das_Neves&diff=260979984&oldid=258164279 >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maria_das_Neves&diff=264791843&oldid=262290274 >>> >>> ...so the "you can edit" idea must be getting fairly apparent even >>> among people who read spam :-) >>> >>> -- >>> - Andrew Gray >>> [email protected] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WikiEN-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
