On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 01:06:33AM +0000, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > > So you will abandon MediaWiki because you have received a > spam mail somehow connected with it? Otherwise that know- > ledge is rather useless.
No, I will not. I will simply follow the advise and add a "X-Archive: encrypt" header to my mailer configuration. Then I will subscribe with a different address extension and see what happens. > >> Set up a decent spam filter if you need a technical solu- > >> tion, and you're done. Frankly, if a technical solution would have filtered out that email I would have been upset about a wrong positive. I guess I shouldn't have used the term "spam" as it conjures up pictures of emails trying to sell you the latest and best in pharmaceuticals or getting rich fast schemas. I really was more of a UCE. An comercial email that I didn't ask for. It was within my sphere of interest and had it arrived two weeks earlier, it might have found me in the need for such a product. (Consequently I would have had to rule out the use of that specific product as I don't condone the use of UCE as marketing method.) The only way I can be sure that it is a UCE and not just the usual business noise, is the use of the address extension that I used to subscribe to this list. Imagine you are working at a decent internet pharmacy (if there is such a thing) and your spam filter starts to filter email concerning the range of products that you deal with. You might have to rely on other methods to keep your inbox managable than content filtering. > If the prospect of receiving one (1) spam mail is cause of > so much worrying to you, I doubt that there is any technical > solution (wherever deployed) that will make you happy. To > strain the metaphor above: Only abstinence provides 100 % > protection, yet rather few people choose this path (probably > for a reason :-)). I still prefer condoms in contrast to filtering out the stuff that I might catch otherwise :-) ... but thats a matter of personal preference and should not cause more debate on a list that should be dedicated to technical aspects of mediawiki. I will not enter into a dick measuring contest about spam filtering fu. I congratulate everybody who didn't receive any spam for the last two weeks. Sorry to have wastet people's time. cheers -henrik BTW: Maybe we have a misunderstood the metaphor. For me "sex" is the metaphor equivalent of "communicating", not "showing people my email address". _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
