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          <rev user="TaterGumfries" timestamp="2012-09-21T23:00:12Z" xml:space="preserve">&lt;big&gt;'''TaterPedia is back!'''&lt;/big&gt;


== TaterPedia destroyed by spammers ==

Gul durned spammers erased all Tater's hard work and put spam up there instead. Don't know if any of it can be got back from the old backups, but we'll by golly give it a shot. Sorry Tater had to disable all account creation and page editin for everyone, but weren't no other way to keep the spammers out. You want to put up somethin? You just write to ol Tater at what you know his email gotta be, and he'll set you up an account. But if any of you spammin boys sneak on in, Tater's gonna humt you down, tie you up and drop you in [[the chipper]], by God!</rev>
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