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Re: Server being voluntarily taken down (was: Re: Cats and pigeons...)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 12 Dec 1999 06:34:39 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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'
Maybe I should have been more clear.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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