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| | | (...) All right. You have this artist friend. She paints things. She invites you and fifty other people over for a housewarming party. Great party, lots of fun, lots of neat things going on. She's got a couple of her latest paintings up on display, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | (...) False analogy. Your conditions don't match Lego's, at least in my estimation. If you stated that the artist's display was on the street, in public, and has the other works uncovered in an inconspicuous but equally public location, then we have (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | (...) I don't see how this corresponds. 1. She didn't invite people over specifically to see her paintings, she invited them to housewarming which happened to display a few paintings. On the other hand, the entire purpose of Lego's web site is to (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Hmm, maybe that's the heart of the controversy right there! I dunno about the net population at large, but I'd certainly experience guilt feelings if I summoned up an image to which there was no readily- obvious hyperlink, because I'd assume (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | (...) I'm coming to think so too. To me, this is fundamentally why we have a URLs -- Uniform Resource Locators. The ability to identify and access resources directly is a basic design decision underlying what makes the WWW what it is. If the intent (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | | (...) Wow, I've been quite reasonable AND made an excellent point today. I'm on a roll. ;) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | (...) Probably. (...) Maybe you haven't spent much time on personal homepages. Misspelled links in the source are more common than correct ones, it sometimes seems. Oh, and of course all webdevelopment gets done on case-insenstive FAT16/32. And then (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) I didn't mean it quite that literally. Correcting an obvious typo or fixing broken \'s to /'s is something I think anyone could do without feeling guilt! :) I meant things like trying to guess names of files from partial information, or if (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | | (...) You mean you go back and see what you should have felt guilty about, in retrospect? I think that's going a bit overboard! (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) Heh heh. No no, I mean when you find some directory with 755 permissions (instead of 711 permissions) and it's got no index.html file, but it's got a home.html file linked to from elsewhere, and home.html contains links to 5 images in its (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | | Reply-To: mattdm@mattdm.org Message-Id: <slrn85lsvu.1dq.matt...ia.bu.edu> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (UNIX) (...) *shrug* It's snooping in stuff that they've made publicly available. Walking down the public alley behind a store because you're curious (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Interesting side-issue: what about going through the garbage in the alley? I could see it either way - people don't generally leave sensitive information in the dumpster, unless they're idiots, but legally, is acquiring, say, hardware (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | (...) No. Refuse, once released to an ordinary refuse collection service, is no longer the property of the originator. If you don't want people viewing your secret plans, shred them and contract with a secure document service which retains control (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Uhm, excuse me, exactly what did I saw that was wrong about the law? --Todd (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | <385C70D7.568E345D@voyager.net> <FMzorw.GrH@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Well I did some digging to find examples but not as much as I could have. While I'd love to devote the time (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Doyle G. Nelson
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| | | | | | | | | (...) HERE! HERE! I agree 100%, well put Lar. :-) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) I don't think it's normally illegal, no, although I would be surprised if there weren't at least a few gray or semi-gray areas lurking there vis-a-vis publishing links to unannounced products. Mostly I meant wrong in the sensibilities sense, (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | | On my site, I assume that ANYTHING on my site will be viewed by someone sooner or later. If I don't want it viewed, I remove it. The most I do for "security" is put index.html files in directories that I might consider sensitive. But then again, I (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) That's silly. Those two have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Brad even specifically mentioned something about "by accident or by intent". So you're telling me that if you accidentally mistype a character in a URL and end up seeing an (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) What two? (...) Heh heh...no, that's not what I meant by "summoned up"; I was referring to snooping or URL trolling. If I summoned up an image by accident, I'd be surprised more than anything else. --Todd (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) Bringing up a world-readable image on a publicly accessible webserver (by any means - either mistyping or experimenting with urls) and invading someone's privacy by going through their medicine cabinets. I don't think you were try to imply (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | (...) Aha. Flawed analogy. There were NO SHEETS. It was not only out in the open, it was in the main room of the party. Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) I may revisit this tomorrow after all the spirits are flushed out of my system, but on the surface this is a bogus analogy. Front window/back window. Signs pointing HERE - Look at this! No signs pointing to other areas, but stuff still there (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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