[WikiEN-l] Fwd: IDG press enquiry regarding the HD-DVD controversy

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ken Arromdee [mailto:arromdee at rahul.net]
>Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2007 11:16 AM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: IDG press enquiry regarding the HD-DVD	controversy
>
>On Thu, 3 May 2007, David Gerard wrote:
>> As I said on the blog:
>> 
>> A flashmob of fight-the-power morons are still spamming an allegedly
>> illegal number into every input box on the web. The Wikipedia admins
>> collectively declared "FUCK OFF YOU SPAMMERS." (Some have gone rabid
>> "ZOMG LAWSUIT" and we were getting a pile of oversight requests as
>> well  $B!= (B I didn't zap, Fred did, until Erik told us not to. Mind you, it
>> nicely short-circuited the idiotic deletion review.) Eventually it was
>> put into the spam filter, because distributed spam is spam.
>
>I entirely agree the number shouldn't be put in a zillion places in Wikipedia.
>But I get the impression that the loudest objections are about use of the
>number *at all* and that getting rid of number spamming is merely a more
>publically acceptable first step towards getting rid of it period.
>
>The proper response is to allow the number on Wikipedia, but ban its use
>as spam, not to completely ban it in any form whatsoever.

It is foolish for anyone with assets that could be levied on to display the number.

Fred