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Re: Petty Civil Disobedience

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NODE 4be021dbRe: 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.

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NODE 81dabebbRe: Petty Civil Disobedience
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. :-)

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Dr. Dimitri Vulis
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
NODE c1134dd9Re: Petty Civil Disobedience
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/