17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
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/