it would be as simple as adding \.exe\s to the meta spam blacklist

On 9/5/09, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> See this talk page:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:189.148.6.25
>
> The poster purports to be a journalist experimenting with putting
> toxic links on Wikipedia to see who will follow them.
>
> Although his actions were IMO dickish, he has some point: is there any
> reason to allow .exe links on WMF sites? Is there a clean method to
> disable them? Is this a bad idea for any reason? What should default
> settings be in MediaWiki itself? etc., etc.
>
>
> - d.
>
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