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Smee 21:56, 26 April 2007 (UTC).Reply

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OK, the above is the standard warning and I personally don't think your edit was inappropriate, I can see how others would. It is probably best to let others cite your website.

On the subject of DNSBLs and such, I recently went looking to find a reliable source (WP:RS) to where MAPS asserted trademark status on the term "RBL" and/or asked others to not use it. All I could easily find were your website and several postings by you on various mailing lists/newsgroups. If you have reference, could you mention them on Talk:DNSBL and/or add a reference to the article? Thanks. Wrs1864 (talk) 20:48, 26 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

In regards to the link to my DNSBL document, I would certainly not have added the first reference to it, but since someone else had already put a reference to the (huge) page as a whole I figured a specific internal link on a particular issue made sense.

As for the trademark, it is reg. #2775425 and I'm trying to figure out a way to reference that properly.

WKCole (talk) 19:52, 27 May 2008 (UTC)Reply