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[Savannah-hackers] Re: [fwd] www: GIF files
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Jeff Bailey |
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[Savannah-hackers] Re: [fwd] www: GIF files |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:11:08 -0800 |
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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.
--
Tofu - The other white meat.
[Savannah-hackers] Re: [fwd] www: GIF files, Bradley M. Kuhn, 2002/01/19
[Savannah-hackers] Re: [fwd] www: GIF files, Hugo Gayosso, 2002/01/19
[Savannah-hackers] Re: [fwd] www: GIF files, Loic Dachary, 2002/01/20