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Re: Server being voluntarily taken down (was: Re: Cats and pigeons...)
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Date: 
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 06:20:28 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org%Spamcake%
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James Brown <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote:
Agree with Larry here.  If I can browse to it freely just by going to
www.lego.com and clicking on links (and I can) - then it is public.

I don't think this is relevant. This is a part of why we have URLs: to
locate resources without having to "burrow". As an example, my Mindstorms
stuff is at <URL:http://www.mattdm.org/mindstorms/>, which you can't get to
from the "root" at <URL:http://www.mattdm.org/>. Does this mean it's not
published? Of course not.

Another example would be the many "http://blahblah.edu/~username" web sites
in existence. Usually these aren't linked from the school's root page, but
they're certainly published.

Random URLs on the Lego server are basically the same situation.


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  Re: Server being voluntarily taken down (was: Re: Cats and pigeons...)
 
(...) Never claimed otherwise. I was adding to Larry's point. He said (paraphrase warning) 'anything on the public side of a firewall is public', and I added 'not only are these on the public side of a firewall, but they've provided links to them' (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Server being voluntarily taken down (was: Re: Cats and pigeons...)
 
(...) Agree with Larry here. If I can browse to it freely just by going to www.lego.com and clicking on links (and I can) - then it is public. NFF James (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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