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Subject:	Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:02:05 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes: > Anything in a newspaper is meant to be read. That's what a newspaper is for. > > (To pound on my earlier point a bit more: it doesn't matter if it's on the > front page, or happens to be on page D47, at the bottom of the third column > and not listed in the index.) I agree. If I can see by normal means (no serious hacking) using a normal URL and a normal web browser some information that Lego doesn't want me to see, then the fault lies with the webmaster of that site, not me. "We put all this info here where everyone can see it, but if you look at it you're in trouble." Chris

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		Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
(...) Yeah, this whole thought of calling it "snooping" seems ridiculous to me. How many times have you had to manually edit URLs you've come across because they just didn't plain work until you "hacked" away at them? If it's world-readable and (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
(...) That's a false analogy. Obviously, not everything on the web server itself is public. For example, www.lego.com runs on Microsoft IIS on top of NT 4 -- obviously the system software is not publicly viewable. But everything in the "documents to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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