Handy WWW anonymizer proxy *and* translator!

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

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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

> Not only does it prevent the nasties from logging where you're coming 
> from, but it also translates to Canadian on the fly, eh?

I thought it was hilarious, but my spouse (who is Canadian) found it less 
humorous.  I still got a little mileage out of using the words "hoser" 
and "hosehead" for a few days ;)

> 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'".)

I wrote the author some time back in hopes of getting the source, but no 
luck :(  Anyone have source for this or similar?  I'd be happy to put it 
up on my web site (http://dal1820.computek.net).
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