[WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case about to close

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

-----Original Message-----
From: Eugene van der Pijll [mailto:eugene at vanderpijll.nl]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 05:01 PM
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case about to close

charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com schreef:
> You can see in the real case that the precise wording was argued
> through 4 and 4.1. Lawyers hate commas, but read it as 
> 
> "Linking to external sites, which contain information harmful to
> another person, so as to harass them, is unacceptable."

That's the most paranoid phrasing of a BADSITES-like policy that I have
ever seen.

(The first comma turns the clause "which contain information..." into a
non-restrictive one, implying that *all* external sites are out to get
us...)

Eugene

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I think you're making too much out of a punctuation error.
Fred