https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28839

--- Comment #5 from seth <[email protected]> 2011-05-10 
19:22:56 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> I don't really see how this is a issue, because you are not really pointing to
> "example.org" you are pointing to the google cache of said page.

The use of the blacklist actually is not just to block a special url, but to
block its content, i.e., block link spamming.

If example.org is blocked by the sbl, then any explicite link to the
google-cache is blocked, too. The reason for that is that the url of the cached
site contains the original (blocked) url. This blocking is intentional and it's
good.
But by using [[cache:example.org]], one is able to circumvent this mechanism.

That could result in a big problem, if any link spammer get's aware of that
fact, because such links a difficult to find. I guess, they can't be found via
special:linksearch.
I already started at w:de to log all additions of "[[cache:" using the abuse
filter extension. I guess, I'll do the same at w:en. But that doesn't solve the
problem, of course.

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