Talk:Letter bomb
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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)
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[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.
[edit] Breaking News
Is it ok to add breaking news? I added in something I read on the BBC news site just now, but perhaps I should have added it to Wikinews. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 194.177.166.118 (talk) 10:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Article should be renamed 'Letter bomb'
I've never even heard the term 'mailbomb' before, it's always been 'letter bomb', and sometimes 'parcel bomb'. Letter bomb is generally used to describe any type of this device, even if it is a larger parcel.
Google hits: "letter bomb" - 1,570,000 / "mailbomb" - 134,000 -- 172.189.62.220 17:31, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Requested move
- The following discussion is an archived move proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the proposal was PAGE MOVED per discussion below. -GTBacchus(talk) 17:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Mailbomb → Letter bomb — Move based on most commonly used and searched for term. "Letter bomb" is more frequently used to describe this device, even if it a larger type. (Mailbomb might be more technically accurate but letter bomb is the most used. Google hits: "letter bomb" - 1,570,000 / "mailbomb" - 134,000 Saikokira 21:05, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Survey - in support of the move
- Support even if it is a package, the media still reports it as a "letter bomb" threat. 205.157.110.11 04:14, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
- Support per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (precision). In addition to the fact "letter bomb" gets most number of Google hits ("letter bomb" - 622,000, "mail bomb" - 209,000, mailbomb - 130,000 and "parcel bomb" - 62,500), "mail bomb" often refers to e-mail bomb while "letter bomb" rarely does. --Kusunose 04:58, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
- Support per argument by Kusunose. mceder (u t c) 18:06, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
- Support. I agree with the E-mail/paper mail distinction. Dekimasuよ! 06:20, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Survey - in opposition to the move
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