Messages in this thread | | | From | "Andrew van der Stock" <> | Subject | Re: F*ck*ng japanese garbage postings and possible HACK. | Date | Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:48:11 +1000 |
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Johan (et al),
kernelnotes is broken - it doesn't deal properly with the language of over 126 million people. "offending characters" is offensive in this context.
Spam is evil (and spammers are first against the wall when the revolution comes), but this thread is missing the point. Spam != language support. Many recipients will now block Japanese posts due to a persistent and annoying spammer. This is - in my opinion - monumentally stupid*. In my freemail account I use when I am at conferences or Internet cafes contains 20 spams since yesterday. All are in English. Shall we ban ASCII and ISO-8859-1 postings? This is the utter stupidity of this line of argument.
Get with the program.
haben Sie Spaß,
Andrew van der Stock, ajv@greebo.net http://www.greebo.net SAGE-AU President http://www.sage-au.org.au
* I do not conduct ad hominem attacks, but realistically, we're talking room temperature (centigrade) IQ levels when banning an entire language is the best "solution" the collective minds of lkml can come up with. We're better than this.
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"Johan Kullstam" <kullstam@ne.mediaone.net> writes:
check out how kernelnotes mail listing in netscape goes nuts after it hits one of these japanese spam land mines. you can still read it, but the subjects are in italics and each post has a bunch of empty lines after it.
for example <URL:http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_0007_03/>
however this might better be fixed over at kernelnotes to make its maillist -> html script expunge offending characters.
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