MediaWiki API result

This is the HTML representation of the JSON format. HTML is good for debugging, but is unsuitable for application use.

Specify the format parameter to change the output format. To see the non-HTML representation of the JSON format, set format=json.

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{
    "batchcomplete": "",
    "continue": {
        "gapcontinue": "SMTP_pull",
        "continue": "gapcontinue||"
    },
    "warnings": {
        "main": {
            "*": "Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-api-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes."
        },
        "revisions": {
            "*": "Because \"rvslots\" was not specified, a legacy format has been used for the output. This format is deprecated, and in the future the new format will always be used."
        }
    },
    "query": {
        "pages": {
            "1435": {
                "pageid": 1435,
                "ns": 0,
                "title": "Recognizing known correspondents",
                "revisions": [
                    {
                        "contentformat": "text/x-wiki",
                        "contentmodel": "wikitext",
                        "*": "{{ast\n|date=early 1990s\n|difficult=Low\n|popular=High\n|effective=Medium\n|harm=Low\n|where=MUA\n}}\nMost mail programs provide an address book of some sort.\nA very popular technique is to whitelist mail from addresses in a user's address book, on the theory that if you know who they are, you probably want their mail.\n\nThis technique is moderately effective as a last pass after other spam filters.  It requires that each user manually update his list of correspondents, leading to email newsletters that start with ''be sure to put our address into your address book.''\n\nAddress books also tend to fill up with junk, particularly in programs that automatically add every outgoing To: address into the address book.\nThis means that if you get an unwanted message, and respond to the message to tell them to stop, the address is now in your address book and implicitly whitelisted."
                    }
                ]
            },
            "1469": {
                "pageid": 1469,
                "ns": 0,
                "title": "Retaliation",
                "revisions": [
                    {
                        "contentformat": "text/x-wiki",
                        "contentmodel": "wikitext",
                        "*": "{{ast\n|date=1994\n|difficult=Low\n|popular=Low\n|effective=Low\n|harm=High\n|where=External\n}}\n\nRetaliation can be seen as a variation on [[Abuse Reporting]]. It is a cooperative technique whereby victims of spam attempt to waste the resources of the organization sending the spam, or cause them other inconvenience.\n\nMany kinds of retaliation have been seen over the years:\n\n* Sending in fake orders with fake or stolen credit card numbers, to cause credit card processor chargebacks.\n* Denial of service attacks on the systems used to take orders.\n* Sending of additional spam with fake offers, discrediting the original spam.\n* Physical attacks on property belonging to spammers.\n* Signing up spammers for enormous quantities of paper junk mail.\n* Complaining to professional organizations and attempting to get spammers censured.\n\nRetaliation varies greatly in legality.\n\n==Advantages==\n\nImposes actual cost on spammers, and may make a given spamming campaign ineffective.\n\n==Disadvantages==\n\nSince spammers are criminals, many are quite willing to hire a botnet and carry out a DDoS attack on those who dare to retaliate against their spam. (Example: the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog Blue Frog] mass reporting system led to DDoS attacks from spammers.)\n\nIllegal forms of retaliation may result in legal action against the retaliators."
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}