Re: Petty Civil Disobedience

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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com

jamesd@echeque.com writes:
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.
That's a good idea for a civil disobedience campaign: get a picture you like from alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.*, shrink it to 20K or 30K, and make it available on your homepage as ObCDA. Everybody who's got a home page should display one. :-) --- Dr. Dimitri Vulis Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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/
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