[Wikipedia-l] Now *this* is different

[Jimmy Wales]

I should point out that it could just be that someone sent a mass
email out to all his friends, and one of them reported it as spam, not
realizing it wasn't intended that way.  No particular action is necessary
at this stage, and I'm writing this fellow to ask him what's up.

Giskart wrote:

> Jimmy Wales wrote:
> 
> >Some unhelpful person is apparently "spamvertising" for wikipedia.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> Put on the main page a message for a week that it is not policy of 
> wikipedia to send spam. And a message to everbody to discourage misuse 
> of the good name of wikipedia by sending spam. -- giskart
> 
> 
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