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

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 5/5/07, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Yes, some members of the community requested it.

It has long been the practice that if multiple people were
persistently hitting multiple pages (i.e. blocking and protection
won't fix it) with a predictable string and we could block it, we
have.

This was the case here. (thanks Digg)