On 02/05/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
And it's also perfectly easy to write an informative and useful article about the topic which does quote the string in question. So unless the foundation takes a position that we can't mention the string, I think we should.
Definitely. But I think we should wait a month, when the massive distributed spam attack has calmed the fuck down.
Now, the string is apparently listed in the spam blacklist. However, it isn't listed on "http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist". I assumed this was due to one of the foundation employees special-casing it, but I'm not sure. Does anyone know how this works?
It was a dev (obviously ab)using their power to do the obviously right thing in the face of a massive distributed spam attack.
- d.