[Scilab-users] QUESTION

[Samuel Gougeon]

Le 14/11/2019 à 09:07, Dang Ngoc Chan, Christophe a écrit :
> Hello,
>> De : Federico Miyara
>> Envoyé : mercredi 13 novembre 2019 22:31
>>
>> Wofai, Chinagorom, Apebo,
> I also started to answer but I'm puzzled by the batch of short questions originating from new subscribers with a Gmail address.
>
> It looks like spamming:
> searching for messages in the archives,
> posting something inspired by that to appear legitimate, then posting a link to a commercial or fishing URL.


Yes, but since there is no url redirection in the messages, i would 
rather wonder about some people in the same academic class, with some 
questions feeding an exam session...
And we, feeding their answer.
;-)
Anyway, i personnaly do not see a reason to take 20 s to answer to some 
subscribers that did not take 5 s to put a subject and  that evidently 
did not spend 15 more seconds to look around the official website and 
all redirections, noticeably to the online documentation.

I guess that it might also be an exam about how to create a robot 
creating an account and spamming a test target.
The last question was about how to make the robot unsubscribing. And one 
have failed.
;-)

Now, i am aware that this is just an how-to take 5 mn to wonder and 
comment about not taking 20 s to answer to some improbable spam..

Best,
Samuel

PS: IMHO, the best way to deter such practice is to shortly and 
massively answer /in private/ to such mails.


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