On 5/2/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/05/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 5/2/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/05/07, Anthony wikilegal@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.
Wouldn't including the information in the encyclopedia obviate the need for the spam attack in the first place? It's not a rhetorical question, as I'm unfamiliar with all the details of the spam attack.
Lots of fuckwits deciding FIGHT THE POWER!!!! and cut'n'pasting The Number into every input box on the damn Web.
Fuck that. That's not writing an encyclopedia. That's distributed spamming. The more we can do to render this futile, the better.
Well, I guess I see your point. I don't think we should let spammers dictate the content of our articles for any amount of time (*), but a month isn't all that long in the grand scheme of things.
Anthony
(*) And that's the point I'm bringing up to my question about what would we do if spammers decided to add "George Bush" to every single page. I'm not saying I'm going to do it, although I suppose I would support others doing it if it gets them to rethink this spam blacklist policy.