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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 8 Jan 2000 06:18:26 GMT
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MATTDM@MATTDMstopspammers.ORG
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Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
> If one must. I also think you'd have the lawyers sicced on you. Things
> like this are blatantly illegal.
Oh, definitely. That wasn't the point at all. If I still remember the
original point of this. :)
> 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.
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 benefits. What
I might like is a redundant system which kicks in automatically if something
Bad (which would have to be much more clearly defined) happened.
> 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.
Ok, why not do it for just that part, as a start?
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) 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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| (...) 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)
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