Ah, but there is one circumstance in which such accessing of Wikipedia is not an illegal act. That is when its purpose is to stop Wikipedia committing an illegal act upon you. Wikipedia is committing an illegal act upon me by trying to ignore my citation, made by email to Jimmy Wales as well as on this list, for it to the remove every word I have ever contributed to Wikipedia, on grounds of copyright violation and ides theft, and ensure they stay removed despite the public editability of pages. Unless you can demonstrate that the second requirement is technically possible, then the continued existence of Wikipedia has been proved entirely illegal. Anything Skyring is doing that his block blocks him from doing, to raise awareness of the way he has been treated and seek due process concerning it, is automatically legal. Anything I do to raise awareness in the other editors of every page I've contributed to, of the violatuion they are dealing with, is automatically legal. Message: 8 Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 03:07:42 +0100 From: "James D. Forrester" <james(a)jdforrester.org> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Looking at the real world To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org> Message-ID: <4319056E.20100(a)jdforrester.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 geni wrote: name and address, and acts. And further, accessing a computer system without authorisation is illegal in the US, the UK, and Australia, to name but a few countries; given that you are banned from Wikipedia, any edits that you were to make would constitute such an illegal act. Several sysops, and not just Mackensen, have suggested that you may well be doing this, violating your ban order. Perhaps you might want to think about finding another place to play, Skyring? Yours sincerely, - -- James D. Forrester Wikimedia : [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] E-Mail : james(a)jdforrester.org IM (MSN) : jamesdforrester(a)hotmail.com ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com