On Aug 19, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Phoebe wrote:
As a followup: The first message mentioning possible vandalism from Larry, however, was much earlier: March 2001. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000025.html
The first copyvio was apparently in Feb. 2001: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-February/000020.html
-- phoebe
Frankly, I find this whole discussion fascinating. For those of us who missed "the early days" it's really interesting to read some of that early list-traffic.
Philippe