On 02/05/07, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
And it's also perfectly easy to write an
informative and useful
article about the topic which does quote the string in question. So
unless the foundation takes a position that we can't mention the
string, I think we should.
Definitely. But I think we should wait a month, when the massive
distributed spam attack has calmed the fuck down.
Now, the string is apparently listed in the spam
blacklist. However,
it isn't listed on "http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist". I
assumed this was due to one of the foundation employees special-casing
it, but I'm not sure. Does anyone know how this works?
It was a dev (obviously ab)using their power to do the obviously right
thing in the face of a massive distributed spam attack.
- d.