2009/3/25 Phil Nash <pn007a2145(a)blueyonder.co.uk>uk>:
Not so much that the whole encyclopedia was blocked,
more that the
collateral effect as a result of blocking vandalism was that a bottleneck
handful of re-routed proxy IP addresses was blocked; however, there was no
block on the image page itself, and anyone who knows the basics of the http:
protocol could work round it; and, of course, it only applied to en:wiki.
Yes, it was rather special that they (a) blocked encyclopedia text (b)
failed to block the actual image they were intending to lblock.
Usually our press is sweetness and neutral light. This time we were
angry and made it known. I think this was a completely sccessful
approach. When used very sparingly indeed.
-d .