Hi! > Was there some urgent production impact that required doing this with no > notice?
Actually we had User-Agent header requirement for ages, it just failed to do what it had to do for a while. Consider this to be a bugfix. > Was any impact analysis done on this? Yup! > Given Wikipedia's mission, we can't be as casual about rejecting traffic as a > commercial site would be. > If a commercial site accidentally gets rid of some third-world traffic > running behind a shoddy ISP, it's no > loss; nobody wants to advertise to them anyhow. But for us, those are the > people who gain the > most from being able to reach us. Actually, at the moment this mostly affects crap sites that hot-load data from us to display spamvertisements on hacked sites on internet. I don't know where your 'shoddy ISP' speculation fits in. Domas _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
