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.
> 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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