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Subject: 
Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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Date: 
Sat, 8 Jan 2000 04:08:45 GMT
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MATTDM@nospamMATTDM.ORG
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Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
Yes. But doing so without Todd's knowledge, _while keeping it up tom
date_, is next to impossible.

Wouldn't be without his knowledge. He'd just be powerless to stop it without
blocking large numbers of legitimate users. Not that I'm advocating such a
thing in any way.

Then there is the fact that by far not everything in lugnet is public
- the CGI and other various bits-o-script holding the thing together aren't
publically available.

Yes that's again true.



A constantly updated copy of the original would be essentially a
mirror - and assuming that you copy the ability to post as well, and
gateway both ways, it might actually make sense to do something like
that, someday. With Todd's consent, of course.

This is a different topic entirely of course. It certainly would be
possible, and something I'd really like to see. Not that I think Todd is
doing a bad job, but I don't like the single-point-of-failure thing.

--
Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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  Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
 
(...) IPblocking such a thing would not block very many legitimate users. Unless you start doing things like spoofing IPs (which can be detected at a firewall level), morphing ISP accounts, etc.etc. Come to think of it, IPblocking of spoofed packets (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
 
(...) Yes. But doing so without Todd's knowledge, _while keeping it up tom date_, is next to impossible. I suspect somebody who downloaded the entire site would show up a significant blip in traffic, also. Then there is the fact that by far not (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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