Sometimes I think geeks should be banned from using metaphor. This thread is a top 5 contender for the strangest threads ever seen on the reliably staid wikitech-l.
Brianna 2009/6/18 H. Langos <[email protected]>: > 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 > -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
