Talk:Mailbomb

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No offence meant to any author, but this article sounds like a direct copy from a Homeland Security thingy. Perhaps an article more focused on the different kinds of bombs, and less focused on what to do when one recieves a suspicious package, is in order. Also, the article makes it sound like any mailbomb will never be sent in a perfectly normal looking cardboard box. --24.132.42.116 16:10, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC) That was me. --Kasperl 16:47, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Term for e-mail with subversive attachment

PJTraill 14:05, 17 April 2006 (UTC) — Does anyone have a term for an e-mail with an attachment containing malware? I assumed that that was what a mail bomb was till this page disabused me.

There are a variety of terms depending on what the payload is. But that's not why I'm writing. Someone redirected my recently-added entry at email bomb back to mailbomb on account of there's some discussion of email bombing here. A comment was made that perhaps the e-mail relate section needs to be split out of this (mailbomb) article and moved to email bomb. I agree, but I don't know how to do that. So if someone with this page on their watchlist could do that I'd be grateful.

Tall Girl 01:36, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Broken links

Unfortunately the split for e-mail has left a large number of links from articles which intended to refer to the internet phenomenon, pointing at the wrong article. This needs to be carefully reviewed, link by link, see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Mailbomb. I've done a couple. Notinasnaid 17:26, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why is this page a US Homeland Security How-To-Recognise a letter bomb article?

Seriously, I came onto the page interested to know the mechanics of letter bombs, how they work, who invented the notion, so on and so forth, and instead I get a page informing me that grease stains on a letter make it a bomb. Maybe a mechanic/car racer/cook/unhygeinic moron sent it? A lopsided letter?! I send them all the time, since I tend to make personalised envelopes. Why is some third rate scare shit on wikipedia? It reads like someone intelligent started the page and then it got edited, poorly.