[WikiEN-l] Re: A danger of massive homework and research requ ests

Thu Jan 29 13:04:25 UTC 2004

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> From: Anthere [mailto:anthere8 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: 29 January 2004 13:02
> To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org
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> Seriously, during my 2 weeks taking care of the english list, member 
> restricted, I had up to 30 mails per day to check.
> with several ones per days infested by virus or worms.
> We just can't have an open list any more, if a solution to found for
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> 2) improve security for the recipiendaries
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Why not a [[Wikipedia: Ask Wikipedia]] page linked form the Main Page?
Currently a lot of stuff ends up on Village Pump that would naturally go to
an Ask page if it existed. Of course, others may well have already suggested
this.

Billy Mills

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