Talk:ASCII ribbon campaign

As follows from [http://www.asciiribbon.org the website], it was not a campaign for ASCII-only email. The word "ASCII" refers to ASCII art as an alternative to HTML. RFC 1855 is irrelevant – an HTML can perfectly be an ASCII only and vice versa, a plain text may contain controls and is not necessarily 8-bit clean. These are different concerns; authors apparently are just ignorant about software problems of late 1990s. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 19:13, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

As of 1 July 2013, asciiribbon.org has abandoned this effort.

I've replaced the link in the references to archive.org. --David G (talk) 14:58, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

I believe the article's length is just adequate for the topic. The large amount of "stub" signs in Wikipedia in an annoyance, and even more so, as they take a very prominent position in a big box on top (and, it seems, are rarely removed). Too large articles do not add to quality of a dictionary.

--Meerwind7 (talk) 10:21, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to {{plural:2|one external link|2 external links}} on ASCII Ribbon Campaign. Please take a moment to review [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=712293353 my edit]. You may add {{tlx|cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it, if I keep adding bad data, but formatting bugs should be reported instead. Alternatively, you can add {{tlx|nobots|deny{{=}}InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether, but should be used as a last resort. I made the following changes:

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The campaign site is back online, so we can replace was with is in the first sentence.

Ant 222 (talk) 22:32, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Not sure I have time to work on rescuing this from PROD right now - if it goes that way perhaps move to draft. Some quick links to check on:

• http://www.asciiribbon.org/
• http://arc.pasp.de/
• https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2024/plain-text-email/
• Phishing exposed ref {{cite book |title=Phishing exposed |date=2005 |publisher=Syngress |location=Rockland, MA |isbn=9781423754305 |page=219}}
• Applied Cryptography and Network Security ref {{cite book |last1=Deng |first1=Robert H. |title=Applied Cryptography and Network Security: 17th International Conference, ACNS 2019, Bogota, Colombia, June 5-7, 2019, Proceedings |date=2019 |publisher=Springer International Publishing AG |location=Cham |isbn=9783030215682 |page=27}}
• Magdeburger Journal zur Sicherheitsforschung ref {{cite journal |last1=Böck |first1=Hanno |title=Efail and other Failures with Encryption and E-Mail |journal=Magdeburger Journal zur Sicherheitsforschung |date=2011 |page=959 |url=https://d-nb.info/120269764X/34 |access-date=6 December 2024}}

:— xaosflux ^Talk 16:32, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

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• {{ping|HyperAccelerated}} would these satisfy that this is an actual thing of modest notability? — xaosflux ^Talk 16:39, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
• :Are they mentions or do they discuss the subject in detail? Quotations would be helpful. HyperAccelerated (talk) 17:03, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
• ::From those sources:
• ::#Phishing Exposed has a section that says that though the campaign has been used by security researchers, the solution isn't a practical measure against security threats. "The regression of certain features of technology is not exactly the solution..."
• ::#Applied Cryptography reports that HTML email became widely adopted "despite opposition by tech enthusiasts (as expressed e.g., in the ASCII ribbon campaign)."
• ::#Magdeburger Journal zur Sicherheitsforschung has back in the days there was the ASCII Ribbon Campaign that advocated for text-only mails.
• :These are certainly not in-depth reports on the subject. They do seem to be reliable, independent sources. I'm not sure how much significant coverage may be out there - suspect most of the lesser known such ribbons aren't very heavily covered. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:42, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
• ::Okay, we would need significant coverage to establish that the subject is notable and worthy of its own article. I'm happy to evaluate sources that you believe meet the threshold for significant coverage, but if you dePROD this article without sourcing improvements, I will send the article to AfD. HyperAccelerated (talk) 20:48, 6 December 2024 (UTC)