David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/3/25 Phil Nash
<pn007a2145(a)blueyonder.co.uk>uk>:
>
>> Not so much that the whole encyclopedia was blocked, more that the
>> collateral effect as a result of blocking vandalism was that a
>> bottleneck handful of re-routed proxy IP addresses was blocked;
>> however, there was no block on the image page itself, and anyone
>> who knows the basics of the http: protocol could work round it;
>> and, of course, it only applied to en:wiki.
>
>
> Yes, it was rather special that they (a) blocked encyclopedia text
> (b) failed to block the actual image they were intending to lblock.
>
> Usually our press is sweetness and neutral light. This time we were
> angry and made it known. I think this was a completely sccessful
> approach. When used very sparingly indeed.
I think we came out of it not covered in excrement: result! I think we got
our response exactly right, despite the difficulties of explaining the
technicalities to a non-technical audience.