Fun with spammers
Classified in : Homepage, Debian, Miscellaneous
Email spam is a plague, but sometimes there is at least on category of spammers it is easy to have fun with: naive manual spammers. People that try to do more or less legal business, using Internet in an illegitimate way, for instance (this is a real example, including the spammer's address: spamming bots, please use it ;-) !):
From: Emma Perroni <emmaperroni@gmail.com> Subject: Hello Hello, Do you have a Facebook page? If you do, I can offer you to add fans by hunders/thouthands in a single day using an original (and confidential) technique. We can also add subscribers to Twitter, Youtube or Google+1. Prices: 10€ for 100 fans, -20% for more than 1000 fans ordered. Regards
Concerning the good use of ITP
When someone wants to package a piece of software for Debian, he has to file an Intent to Package, by filing a special bug report against the pseudo-package “wnpp” (work-needing and prospective packages) with a title of “ITP: software name”. This way, we can synchronize our efforts, for instance if someone else wants to package the same piece of software. I have seen two recent examples of a misunderstanding of the correct use of such reports, so perhaps this reminder may be of some help for newcomers.