[VOIPSEC] Wikipedia page on SPIT/VoIP spam really needs some work...

[Jon Callas]

On Apr 14, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Dan York wrote:

> VOIPSEC readers,
>
> FYI, I wound up looking up SPIT at Wikipedia today and noticed that it
> could use some work:
>
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoIP_spam
>
> For instance, is there anyone out there seriously calling voice spam
> "vamming"?  (Please tell me "No!" so that the linguist in me won't
> start gagging!)
>
> If there's anyone out there interested in doing some updating to make
> it read a bit better and have some pointers to current research (and,
> in my opinion, delete the "vamming" reference!), that would be a good
> thing for the VoIP security community in my opinion.


Go to Wikipedia and delete it.

You're an expert in the field and you can claim there's no basis to  
call unwanted calls over VOIP with any cutesy name.

However, even better would be to add in a paragraph that is titled  
"Cute Names for VOIP Spam" in which you mention both SPIT and VAM and  
ridicule them both as being cutesy and non-canonical. This is better  
because there's less chance that someone will follow you by  
reinstating them.

I've corrected a number of stupidities in Wikipedia this way.

	Jon


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