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Re: The OCAF's White Paper on Internet Pornography

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Graves)
Tue Feb 6 16:26:21 1996

Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 13:20:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
To: zinc <zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960206132917.8103C-100000@zifi.genetics.utah.edu>

On Tue, 6 Feb 1996, zinc wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> 
> regarding this paper;  it's sent out by an autoresponder.  is it illegal 
> to make excessive use of the autoresponder?  this would be a type of 
> denial of service attack.
> 
> i'm wondering if i set up a cron job to request a copy every 5 or 10 
> minutes and just send it to /dev/nul, could i get in more trouble than 
> say, someone just telling me to cut it out?

This would be bad, but

TAKE A LOOK AT THE DOCUMENT RIGHT NOW!!! The fun starts about a page down.

 http://www.bway.net/~dfenton/noporn.html

Whoever "DWF" is deserves a medal.

-rich

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