NODE 14fcd9c0Re: FCPUNX:Anonymous IRC (was 'Cypherpunks IRC Christmas EveParty')
Lance Cottrell <loki@infonex.com>Sat, 3 Jan 1998 09:19:12 +0800
At 1:32 AM +0000 12/31/97, wayne clerke wrote:
>On Tuesday, December 30, 1997 7:56 AM, Mark Hedges
>[SMTP:hedges@rigel.cyberpass.net] wrote:
>>
>>
>> We found IRC users to be so involved in petty information wars --
>> ping floods, malicious prank hacking, and the like -- that we directed
>> policy against use of IRC from the anonymous shell accounts at CyberPass.
>>
>> If IRC users weren't so easily lulled by the tempation to crash a server
>> or run malicious bots or just plain irritate other people for fun, and
>> if they would gang up and kick out people who did that, then perhaps we'd
>> switch that back on.
>>
>> They were just too much overhead. Everyone else seems pretty nice, really,
>> as far as the system goes. They're all self-interested in keeping the
>> anonymous publishing and so on going, so the peace keeps itself.
>
>
>What's the reason behind the policy direction against the use of personal web
>proxies running in a (paid for) shell account?
>Seems like less risk than you already accept anyway. Something I've missed?
>
System load is the issue in this case. If a proxy becomes publicly known
the load it imposes on the system could quickly become gigantic. In
addition we found that people were setting up proxies on any old port,
sometimes causing all kinds of conflicts.
Our accounts are priced assuming light personal usage. Running servers on
our systems is negotiable.
-Lance
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NODE 57125115RE: FCPUNX:Anonymous IRC (was 'Cypherpunks IRC Christmas Eve Party')
"wayne clerke" <wclerke@emirates.net.ae>Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:29:08 +0800
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lance Cottrell [mailto:loki@infonex.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 1998 5:08 AM
> To: wayne clerke; cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
> Subject: Re: FCPUNX:Anonymous IRC (was 'Cypherpunks IRC Christmas Eve
> Party')
[...]
> >What's the reason behind the policy direction against the use of personal
web
> >proxies running in a (paid for) shell account?
> >Seems like less risk than you already accept anyway. Something I've
missed?
> >
>
> System load is the issue in this case. If a proxy becomes publicly known
> the load it imposes on the system could quickly become gigantic. In
> addition we found that people were setting up proxies on any old port,
> sometimes causing all kinds of conflicts.
>
> Our accounts are priced assuming light personal usage. Running servers on
> our systems is negotiable.
It seems this was just stated on the list for advertizing purposes.
It's not so negotiable that private emails are responded to.
>
> -Lance
>
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