On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Aryeh Gregor
<[email protected]<simetrical%[email protected]>
> wrote:

> Anyway, the reason live mirrors are prohibited is not for load
> reasons.  I believe it's because if a site does nothing but stick up
> some ads and add no value, Wikimedia is going to demand a cut of the
> profit for using its trademarks and so on.  Some sites pay Wikimedia
> for live mirroring.  So the others, in principle, get blocked.


Right, but a live mirror is a very different thing than a search box link.


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-george william herbert
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