2009/1/16 Chris Down neuro.wikipedia@googlemail.com:
There was a thread about this at AN/I a little while ago - I believe Mr. Godwin contacted them and they said they had no involvement.
Are you sure of this? I know the register says it, but shouldn't we double check?
About a week or two ago, someone on IRC flagged up a weird situation where a number of specific URLs, if fed into web.archive.org, would bring up the usual list of dates... but with every link on it going to a really quite surreal link which said something along the lines of "this has been blacklisted", hosted on one of the UK ISPs. This affected some UK readers but not others.
The situation resolved itself within an hour or so, though, and the behaviour stopped. I really should have taken screenshots, but it didn't occur to me until afterwards...
So, yeah, weird archive.org stuff and the IWF seems plausible.