[Savannah-hackers] Re: [fwd] www: GIF files

[Jeff Bailey]

Yes, I received a copy.

BTW, I will be in Boston on the weekend of the third.  Shall we have a
massive key signing?

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:07:28PM -0500, Mark H. Weaver wrote:
> Jeff Bailey <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I just assumed it was more spam and deleted it.  A mailing list would
> > never send a message.
> 
> Your use of the past tense in your first sentence suggests that you
> also received a copy of the same message.  Is this true?  If so,
> that's interesting, because my copy of the message looks like it's
> addressed ONLY to me.
> 
> This is not just ordinary spam.  If it wasn't sent by legitimate GNU
> folk, then this is a potential security problem.  It appears that
> someone is attempting to get various GNU folks to do jobs from
> anonymous sources.  Not to be taken lightly!
> 
>         Mark
> 
> 
> > 
> > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:51:04PM -0500, Mark H. Weaver wrote:
> > > Who sent this message?  I like to know who's talking to me, especially
> > > when they're asking me to do a job.
> > > 
> > > Humans write messages, not mailing lists.  Even the "Received" headers
> > > do not reveal the origin, as it was sent by address@hidden
> > > 
> > > Why did this anonymous person send this job to me, and only me?
> > > 
> > > I'm also rather puzzled that this person would take the time to write
> > > a script to do the task, and then ask me to run it.  Why don't they
> > > just run the script?
> > > 
> > >         Mark
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > X-From-Line: address@hidden Sat Jan 19 12:50:51 2002
> > > Envelope-to: address@hidden
> > > Delivery-date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:50:51 -0500
> > > Subject: www: GIF files
> > > To: address@hidden
> > > From: address@hidden
> > > Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:50:48 -0500
> > > 
> > >     Hi,
> > > 
> > >     Could you please remove the following GIF files from the project
> > > www hosted on the GNU machines ? 
> > > 
> > >     For an explanation on why there are not GIF files on the GNU
> > > machines read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html. This policy was
> > > established years ago by the GNU project and is an integral part of
> > > the requirements for every project registering on savannah.gnu.org
> > > (see http://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php).
> > > 
> > >     The home page of your project is 
> > >       http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/www/
> > > 
> > >     You can convert GIF files to PNG using the gif2png program.
> > >       http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/gif2png/gif2png-2.4.2.tar.gz
> > > 
> > >     Here is a sample script to convert the GIF files that are in
> > > your web pages to PNG.
> > > 
> > >     export CVS_RSH=ssh
> > >     cvs -d address@hidden:/webcvs co 
> > >     cd 
> > > 
> > >     while read file 
> > >     do
> > >   gif2png -O $file.gif
> > >   cvs delete -f $file.gif
> > >   cvs add $file.png
> > >     done <<'EOF'
> > > software/cfengine/cfconsole/cfconsole
> > > software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/img1
> > > software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/img2
> > > software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/img3
> > > software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/img4
> > > software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/l2h22381/img1
> > > software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/l2h22543/img2
> > > software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/l2h22543/img3
> > > software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/l2h22543/img4
> > > software/gnumeric/gnumeric3
> > > software/gnumeric/gnumeric4
> > > software/gnumeric/gnumeric5
> > > software/gnumeric/gnumeric6
> > > software/gnumeric/gnumeric7
> > > software/gnumeric/gnumeric8
> > > software/lilypond/docxx/down
> > > software/lilypond/docxx/icon1
> > > software/lilypond/docxx/icon2
> > > software/lilypond/docxx/logo
> > > software/mswordview/mswordview
> > > software/nosql/NoSQL
> > > EOF
> > >     cvs commit -m 'Convert GIF to PNG'
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   Thanks for your help,
> > > 
> > >   The GNU volunteers, address@hidden
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Tofu - The other white meat.

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