Not only does it prevent the nasties from logging where you're coming from, but it also translates to Canadian on the fly, eh? -rich ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 00:32:36 -0500 From: John R. Covert <covert@covert.enet.dec.com> Newgroups: alt.revisionism, alt.politics.white-power, alt.internet.media-coverage, alt.censorship, comp.org.eff.talk, soc.culture.german Subject: Re: Simon Wiesenthal Center Did Not Attempt to Censor Internet In article <declanmDLzvJ8.8MK@netcom.com>, declanm@netcom.com (D B McCullagh) wrote:
If the German government forces Deutsche Telekom to block access to web servers at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, and Stanford University, it will be slicing off communications with three of the most respected universities in the United States.
It will be interesting to see if they do. At first, I refused to believe that they would do it to WebCom. I just thought I'd mention another technique for dealing with this problem. It doesn't require dedicating disk space to specific sites; instead, it relays through to any site you specify. For an example, see "The Great Web Canadianizer" at http://www.io.org/~themaxx/canada/can.html To thwart censorship of specific sites, people who have a bit of bandwidth to spare could set up cgi scripts like this one (without the text modification the Canadianizer does -- that's its hack). (Zundel's stuff is no less offensive after the Canadianizer adds a bunch of "eh?"s and "hosers" and changes all the "-ing"s to "-in'".) /john