James duffy wrote in part:
I would disagree with the description of what I am
suggesting as
'witchhunting' software.
Well, I'm not the one that introduced that term. ^,^
DW in particular is a serious
threat to wiki; from raising possible serious legal difficulties over
copyright photos, to threatening to sue anyone who 'outs' him, to scaring
off newbies and not so new-bies with his behaviour.
This isn't strictly relevant,
but the copyright photos aren't a very /serious/ threat.
The DMCA protects Wikipedia, despite what DW says.
(But we've talked about that elsewhere.)
The rules should be:
[...]
You've cleared up any question in my mind now
as to whether what you're advocating is sufficiently open.
For me, it is. Thank you!
-- Toby