I agreed as I knew about it, I said "they will stay away from it" (without knowing about this policy, just for avoiding accusations of association) and I changed my password. If it's about the present tense of "I do not let 'arbitrary' people use my account, even less spammers", it was as a reply to the present tense of the previous text of Rspeer, considering that they talk about what happened in the past. Then I continued to describe what happened in the past and how they did what they wanted by themselves. The present had no relevance for me, since I did not edit on Wikipedia for a lot of time and, as far as I can foresee, I don't have plans to edit in the near future.
Plus that, anyway, with my knowledge of English, not letting arbitrary people does not imply automatically letting specific people (as one derived a conclusion). Deiphral On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net>wrote: > > Put simply, because there was an ongoing issue with a compromised > > account. A user was allowing other people to share his account, and had > > not agreed to stop doing this. That is an ongoing problem and rightly > > deserved a block. > > > > Of course if the user later agreed to stop doing this, the rationale > > might not still apply. > > There is still a problem: He still has friends; there is probably still > only one computer; and his friends may be interested in writing Wikipedia > accounts for hire, a legal activity, as he points out. We might have to > sort some of this stuff out. I think we can. > > Fred > > > > > ----- "Nathan" <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: "Nathan" <nawr...@gmail.com> > >> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > >> Sent: Thursday, 9 July, 2009 18:51:45 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, > >> Portugal > >> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The current purges in English Wikipedia (...and > >> my personal case) > >> > >> I'm not sure how blocking someone for conduct admitted from "some years > >> ago", that doesn't appear to have hurt anyone or caused any disruption, > >> is > >> "the right thing to do." That's like saying "You violated 3RR in 2004, > >> I'm > >> blocking you for 24 hours. If you wish to be unblocked, admit your > >> guilt and > >> promise never to edit-war again." It's not bad advice for someone who > >> wants > >> to be unblocked, given human nature, but it shouldn't be necessary. > >> Nathan > >> _______________________________________________ > >> WikiEN-l mailing list > >> WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l