[WikiEN-l] HD DVD key and the spam blacklist

[Anthony]

"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?

Anthony

On 5/2/07, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Phil Sandifer wrote:
> >
> > On May 2, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Anthony wrote:
> >
> >> Can an employee of the foundation please speak up and clarify whether
> >> or not we are allowed to publish this key?
> >
> > Please don't do this, employee of the Foundation.
> >
> > David is pretty much right here - the issue right now isn't legality,
> > it's notability. We're not a newspaper. Wait a month, see how this
> > plays out, and then we can write the right article. Any article
> > written right now isn't an encyclopedia article, it's a piece of
> > Internet activism about the right to publish the string "09 F9 11 02
> > 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0." Which, as that last sentence
> > demonstrates, I'm all for.
> >
> > But Wikipedia isn't the place to do that now.
> >
> > If the Foundation steps in, the message becomes "the issue here is a
> > legal one," and an important editorial judgment is erased.
> >
> > -Phil
>
> Agreed :-)
>
> ant
>
>
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