Newsbyte, This is offtopic, but your recent emails reminded me about it, I beg the indulgence of the list.
Before I add you to my /dev/null list again, one thing I wanted to say. Please please stop spamming Wikipedia with links to your blog, it is *really* uncool. Before you embarrass yourself by denying it, lets look at the headers from the last email you sent to the list. This line was interesting: Received: from aojrcfrqu0jg9l (082-146-104-116.dyn.adsl.xs4all.be It was interesting, because a while ago I noticed that somebody kept adding a link to your dumb blog rant on the software patents directive to the Wikipedia page on the "Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions". Not only did they add it once, but that person re-added it a number of times after it had been removed. According to the history of that page the IP address of this rather persistent person was 195.144.64.17. A simple reverse DNS lookup on this IP address revealed that their hostname was srv017.bxl.xs4all.be. Can you imagine it?! Someone in Belgium, using your ISP, that is unnervingly determined to add links to *your* blog from a Wikipedia article?! What an amazing coincidence!!! But seriously, Wikipedia is a really useful site, but this kind of self-serving behavior ruins it for everyone, and it *really* annoys me when I discover it. I would like to say that I was surprised to see that you were doing this, but frankly I wasn't. Could you please stop abusing this valuable resource to attract undeserved attention to your rants? Thanks. Ian. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@freenetproject.org http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech _______________________________________________ chat mailing list chat@freenetproject.org Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
