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List:       wikitech-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug in URL spam filter
From:       "Charlotte Webb" <charlottethewebb () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-10-29 18:34:10
Message-ID: 4286fc440710291134s44be208bse97c6a2348947004 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 10/29/07, Angela <beesley@gmail.com> wrote:
> It probably should. Since this list is used by many MediaWiki
> installations, not just by Wikipedia, it should only be for sites that
> are really spam which should never be included in any wiki, not just
> for sites which are ok if linked to by admins.

Indeed, I thought the feature was added to give us a technological
edge over bot-net spammers (or other situations where individually
blocking IP addresses isn't effective enough).

—C.W.

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