[WikiEN-l] HD DVD key mess - OFFICE/Foundation?

[David Gerard]

On 02/05/07, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> On 5/2/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 02/05/07, Anthony <wikilegal at 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.

> Wouldn't including the information in the encyclopedia obviate the
> need for the spam attack in the first place?  It's not a rhetorical
> question, as I'm unfamiliar with all the details of the spam attack.


Lots of fuckwits deciding FIGHT THE POWER!!!! and cut'n'pasting The
Number into every input box on the damn Web.

Fuck that. That's not writing an encyclopedia. That's distributed
spamming. The more we can do to render this futile, the better.


- d.