On 5/2/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Anthony wrote:
"The spam filter blocked your page save because it detected a blacklisted hyperlink."
"The following text is what triggered our spam filter: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0"
If what I think Florence is saying is true, and the foundation has not stepped in, then how did this string get into the spam filter? Who decided to put it there and for what reason?
I believe River put it in, but I would have done the same if I was around when the requests for this action came flooding in. The reason was that it was being used in spam.
So, if I start spamming "George Bush" all over the wiki that string will get blocked by the regex filter too?