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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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Sat, 8 Jan 2000 06:03:53 GMT
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On Sat, 8 Jan 2000 04:57:18 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
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> Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
> > IPblocking such a thing would not block very many legitimate users.
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> 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.
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 to do a false web apply for privileges before getting news.
Which is very blatantly illegal - could be a testcase for "lying in
writing" applied to the web ;)
> Well, consider the possiblity of Todd shutting down LUGnet over the
> potential appearance of copyright violation in the linking-to-Lego's-site
> Y2K set issue a little bit ago. I'd suggest that Todd only felt compelled to
> do so exactly because of it being totally under his control. I don't think
> that if the same information had been posted to, say, RTL, he woulda been
> clamoring for Usenet to be shut down until things were sorted out.
Yes. I think so too. But I disagree with your conclusion - the
benefits outweigh the doubts. You need a single guiding hand. Most
Open-Source projects aren't run by democratic fiat either. Canonical
example: linux-kernel.
If this were just about news, a dedicated hierarchy, run on dedicated
servers, with possibly a web-interface thrown in, I'd agree with you,
but it isn't.
Jasper
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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