2009/1/8 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk:
2009/1/8 Owen Blacker owen@blacker.me.uk:
I don't suppose anyone has any evidence that the IWF definitely contacted a specific police force, do they? :o)
It's interesting - we always seem to have assumed the Met, but a quick search suggests this isn't publicly stated anywhere, and other police forces talk vaguely of cooperating with them as well.
It might be rewarding to dig through newspaper archives of the last few years to see what's been written about the way they work.
They were formed due to chief inspector Stephen French of the Metropolitan Police explaining to the ISPs what would happen if they didn't do something.
In terms of the way they works see this mailing list:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2008-December/thread.ht... the subject being "cleanfeed and wikipedia". Lot to read but it gives some idea of the history of the IWF and cleenfeed (which was not initially an IWF project).