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Re: Server being voluntarily taken down (was: Re: Cats and pigeons...)
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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.

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.

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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(...) 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:(URL), which you can't get to from the "root" at <URL:(URL). Does this mean it's (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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