Sometimes these bot operators might just want to run the bot on a few pages, or some special settings that I don't know of. But still entirely blocking people from running interwiki bots is quite ridiculous.
Regards, Hydriz
From: p858snake@gmail.com Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:09:12 +1000 To: toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] interwiki.py
Perhaps you should look at why people are running with different settings then standardize. Interwiki bots should all be doing the roughly the same job, shouldn't they? so whats with the different settings?
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