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    Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?] —Jasper Janssen
   (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?] —Matthew Miller
   (...) Not so at all. I'd just use a dialup account (plenty of bandwidth to deal with the discussion traffic) at one or several major ISPs. I don't think Todd wants to break Earthlink or AOL access for all of Boston. (...) Spoofing IPs probably (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?] —Jasper Janssen
     (...) If one must. I also think you'd have the lawyers sicced on you. Things like this are blatantly illegal. As added protection, Todd could make the NNTP connections password-protected (fairly easily, even, technically). In which case you'd need (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?] —Matthew Miller
   (...) Oh, definitely. That wasn't the point at all. If I still remember the original point of this. :) (...) For the record, I totally agree and sympathize with Todd's decision to run things the way he currently is. There are clear and definite (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?] —Jasper Janssen
   (...) I don't think our current usage is enough to support a dedicated backup server, yet. I mean, we have, what, 1000 messages/day and 30k users? Still peanuts ;) By the time it gets up to 10-25k msgs/day, I'd be looking for a physical backup, (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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