E. Allen Smith said,
... until someone comes up with anonymous-location web pages...
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. The pages could expire just like usenet. And just as there are many nntp servers that contain more or less the same informaton, there could be many of these anonweb servers with essentially the same information. Right now a news administrator isn't held responsible of there's some "bad" information in his news spool -- copyright violations, obscenity, etc. If the link between physically hosting a web page and being responsible for its contents could somehow be broken, then anonymous web pages would be possible. If an anonweb server was just a robot that reads usenet, maybe anonweb operators could slide in under the usenet tradition. The distributed nature of the usenet model would also solve another problem with anonymous web pages, namely that it costs money to serve them, and there's no way to tell how popular an anonymous web page will be until you put it out there. Individual ISPs would host anonweb servers for the benefit of their customers (web page readers) rather than the anonymous publishers. If someone puts up an anonweb page that gets 100,000 hits a day, an ISP with 2,000 customers will only have to shoulder a small part of that burden. -- alex