On 02/05/07, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org>
wrote:
On 5/2/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.
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.