-----Original Message----- From: Lance Cottrell [mailto:loki@infonex.com] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 1998 5:08 AM To: wayne clerke; cypherpunks@cyberpass.net Subject: Re: FCPUNX:Anonymous IRC (was 'Cypherpunks IRC Christmas Eve Party')
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What's the reason behind the policy direction against the use of personal web proxies running in a (paid for) shell account? Seems like less risk than you already accept anyway. Something I've missed?
System load is the issue in this case. If a proxy becomes publicly known the load it imposes on the system could quickly become gigantic. In addition we found that people were setting up proxies on any old port, sometimes causing all kinds of conflicts.
Our accounts are priced assuming light personal usage. Running servers on our systems is negotiable.
It seems this was just stated on the list for advertizing purposes. It's not so negotiable that private emails are responded to.
-Lance
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