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I'm concerned about tinyurl in there. It's an easy easy way to add something illegitimately, and there's no need for it, as we can choose our own link text. —Timotab 00:41, 14 July 2007 (EDT)

Spammers have no incentive to use tinyurl because it doesn't get them any pagerank. I've only included it because it's already on one or two pages and I don't want to have to edit out those links to allow people to edit those pages in the future. - misuba 16:48, 14 July 2007 (EDT)

My user page references my LiveJournal for a description of my icebox (and the same reference is on the Icebox page as well); if livejournal.com - or at least freetrav.livejournal.com - remains disallowed, neither my user page nor the Icebox page can be edited. Please add? I'd like to be able to update my user page, at the very least. --FreeTrav 15:41, 17 July 2007 (EDT)

The IcehouseOrg:Externally-hosted resources page has a lot of links (in the notes field of the filled-in templates) to Imageshack.US, which is disallowed. Most of them appear to be links to images of Zendo koans. I've broken the links with spaces so that they'll get through the filter, but... --FreeTrav 12:33, 2 September 2007 (EDT)