[48443] in Cypherpunks
Re: "German service cuts Net access" (to Santa Cruz)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Mon Jan 29 05:23:40 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 02:21:49 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
At 09:54 PM 1/27/96 -0800, shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green) wrote:
>Wonder how long before they will include gereral purpose proxies in the
>proposed ban.
>We should start a "banned websites pool". If a site gets banned, the
>controversial content will be mirrored at all other sites. There are enough
>ISPs on this list to make that happen. Will they have the courage?
If I were running an ISP, I wouldn't go providing free host space for a
mirror of Nazi files just because they'd been banned (and an obvious
scan is to go claiming you've been banned just to get free space.)
On the other hand, an HTTP relay site would be a highly reasonable
service, perhaps with NNTP relaying as well.
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