RE: Vim Script Spam

Hi John and list.

> My theory: A user created a valid Vim script [... ] later [ .. wants
> to delete his profile and stuff .. ]
If this is true the author still exists. The email did not get
delivered. So can we find a way to contact the original author?
Then we can stop talking about *security* and whether this is a
security issue or not.

user name sttillmann
first name Sebastian-Torsten
last name Tillmann
email stillmann@users.sourceforge.net (does no longer exist)
homepage http://sebastian-tillmann.de

Does anybody know how to contact him?

> A likely reaction is what happened with script 1670, namely, the
Can't you delete all files without uploading a jpg?

> Bram alerted me to 1670 (probably someone told him).
At least two to three people got alerted (ZyX noticed it because he
reviews VAM-kr (kudos to him) - he told me. Bram was told ..
That we catch these things that fast makes me proud being part of this
community! Even though some parts of the homepage are old - still lot's
of people do care a lot.

> I have around ten other old scripts to delete: a couple that
> Charles Campbell has withdrawn (due to an attack on the script
> ratings that we discussed a while back), and some old junk which
> looks harmless but is not related to Vim (some of which is
> definitely old spam).

I feel bad about Charles Campbell - I think he contributed lot's of
valuable scripts in the past. Going away from www.vim.org just means
dropping value of www.vim.org. Thanks that you reminded about that huge
issue.

And honestly I think that we have the situation that doing nothing harms
more than doing anything.

Marc Weber

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