[51926] in Cypherpunks
Re: Petty Civil Disobedience
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan B. McCullagh)
Mon Mar 11 04:53:31 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 04:42:05 -0500 (EST)
From: "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, jamesd@echeque.com
Cc:
In-Reply-To: <199603100537.VAA24499@mail1.best.com>
Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 9-Mar-96 Re: Petty Civil
Disobedience by jamesd@echeque.com
> At 10:31 AM 3/9/96 -0500, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:
> > Perhaps we should put up our own protest web sites with one or two
> > explicit sexual images as real civil disobedience?
>
> Major problem here is that ten million horny geeks are likely to bring
> your server to its knees, but if one only has one image, and it is
> moderately small, say thirty thousand bytes, perhaps the flood would
> taper off eventually.
jef@well.com ran into this with his nude-of-the-month page; the WELL
fixed it by throttling. (JEF is the guy who wrote thttpd)
-Declan
PS: His page is at http://www.well.com/~jef/
