{"id":24,"date":"2007-05-03T13:44:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T13:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/05\/03\/teh-illeeeegil-numbah-will-eat-j00r-aaaassssss\/"},"modified":"2007-05-03T20:29:47","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T20:29:47","slug":"teh-illeeeegil-numbah-will-eat-j00r-aaaassssss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/05\/03\/teh-illeeeegil-numbah-will-eat-j00r-aaaassssss\/","title":{"rendered":"TEH ILLEEEEGIL NUMBAH WILL EAT J00R AAAASSSSSS."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/05\/01\/hotmail_friendly_fire\/\">Stop using Hotmail<\/a>. Microsoft are suggesting that admins of servers whose mail is being eaten pay $1400 a year for their mail to get through. <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/signup\">Gmail is now open to all<\/a> and doesn&#8217;t silently vanish messages (except your <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?answer=10314\">sent messages to mailing lists<\/a>, which is a nuisance).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eu.socialtext.net\/wikiwed\/index.cgi?london_wikiwed_6_june_2007\">London Wikimeet<\/a> (not Wikipedia), 6th June.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A flashmob of fight-the-power morons are <i>still<\/i> spamming an allegedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=illegal+number\">illegal number<\/a> into every input box on the web. The Wikipedia admins collectively declared &#8220;FUCK OFF YOU SPAMMERS.&#8221; (Some have gone rabid &#8220;ZOMG LAWSUIT&#8221; and we were getting a pile of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia%3AOversight\">oversight<\/a> requests as well &mdash; I didn&#8217;t zap, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User:Fred_Bauder\">Fred<\/a> did, until <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Eloquence\">Erik<\/a> told us not to. Mind you, it nicely short-circuited the idiotic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WP%3ADRV#09_9_11_02_9D_74_E3_5B_D8_41_56_C5_63_56_88_C0_.28closed.29\">deletion review<\/a>.) Eventually it was put into the spam filter, because distributed spam is <i>spam<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re a project to write an encyclopedia, not a public graffiti wall. You want to paint &#8220;09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0&#8221; in fifty-foot high letters on every Hollywood studio, I&#8217;ll buy brushes. You want to splatter it across Wikipedia, you can fuck off. I expect <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HD_DVD_encryption_key_controversy\">the article<\/a> will contain the number in due course; I&#8217;d guess two to four weeks, any earlier would in my opinion only encourage further use of Wikipedia as a graffiti wall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Immediatism\">Immediatism<\/a> is the greatest curse of our popularity and blatantly interferes with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WP%3AWIP\"><i>far<\/i> from finished<\/a> encyclopedia project. Wikimedia <i>has<\/i> a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Digg.com_suffers_user_revolt%3B_Founder_will_not_fight\">newspaper<\/a>. No candy for you. You come back, one month.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia%3AKeyspam\">Wikipedia:Keyspam<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop using Hotmail. Microsoft are suggesting that admins of servers whose mail is being eaten pay $1400 a year for their mail to get through. Gmail is now open to all and doesn&#8217;t silently vanish messages (except your sent messages to mailing lists, which is a nuisance). London Wikimeet (not Wikipedia), 6th June. A flashmob &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/05\/03\/teh-illeeeegil-numbah-will-eat-j00r-aaaassssss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TEH ILLEEEEGIL NUMBAH WILL EAT J00R AAAASSSSSS.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}