On 1/24/07, Walter Vermeir walter@wikipedia.be wrote:
But local sysops can override again that blacklist by including that domain on the local whitelist.
Yes, this was due to a single weird case where a free hosting site was being used by spammers to hit all of our wikis.. but the same free hosting site is widely used by speakers of a single language for legitimate hosting (including things like government sites and such).
The local white lists are not widely used.
And it seems that there will also come a local blacklist active; http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8492
If every bug or even patch in bugzilla were closed the world would be a very different place.
I'm generally against making the SBL a local decision.. if a URL is being spamvertised and it is without value, and the spamming can't be stopped via less aggressive means, then all the wikis should be protected from it. Although for non-spamming related uses, a local URLBL makes sense.