"German service cuts Net access" (to Santa Cruz)

Bill Stewart stewarts at ix.netcom.com
Mon Jan 29 10:35:53 PST 1996


At 09:54 PM 1/27/96 -0800, shamrock at netcom.com (Lucky Green) wrote:
>Wonder how long before they will include gereral purpose proxies in the
>proposed ban.
>We should start a "banned websites pool". If a site gets banned, the
>controversial content will be mirrored at all other sites. There are enough
>ISPs on this list to make that happen. Will they have the courage?

If I were running an ISP, I wouldn't go providing free host space for a
mirror of Nazi files just because they'd been banned (and an obvious
scan is to go claiming you've been banned just to get free space.)
On the other hand, an HTTP relay site would be a highly reasonable
service, perhaps with NNTP relaying as well.
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