[WikiEN-l] London calling, etc.

[James Farrar]

On 02/10/2007, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, the next best thing would probably have been to ring the police direct
> and point them to the information in the wikipedia, rather than spamming it
> across a list in the *hope* that somebody was in a position to action it.

It was a reasonable expectation.

> As a matter of experience and principle, historically it always seems to be
> a bad idea to encourage things that are off-topic to be included on a list,
> no matter how well meaning it might seen. I have never seen it end well, and
> this one didn't either; no matter how glad we are that everyone is OK, we
> still got punked.

Well, next time there's a similar occurrence, you can ignore it, if
you think your conscience can take the risk of being proved horribly
wrong.

I also reject your characterisation of this as not ending well; I
think it ended as well as we could have expected.