Alex Strasheim <cp@proust.suba.com> writes:
Has anyone ever considered setting up anonymous web sites on top of usenet? People could post pages anonymously to usenet, and the web sites could grab them and put them up automatically.
I see two problems right off the top: 1. Given the number of images, sound files, and movies that the most popular web pages will invariably have, the load incurred by propagating the associated files all over the net would be tremendous; 2. If CDA begins to be seriously enforced, Usenet will suffer as much as the Web: as soon as ISPs have reason to believe that such and such a newsgroup is carrying unlawful material, they'll have to stop spooling those groups. The material will move into off-topic groups, ISPs will get tipped off, and they'll have to shut those off too. I can imagine a whole army of busybodies scanning the comp.* hierarchy for pictures of tits... -- Roger Williams PGP key available from PGP public keyservers Coelacanth Engineering consulting & turnkey product development Middleborough, MA wireless * DSP-based instrumentation * ATE tel +1 508 947-8049 * fax +1 508 947-9118 * http://www.coelacanth.com/