Re: Using The Internet To Store Data

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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:07:44 +0100

In message <1123688789.d8d2add75f79ae92c047100ea3696267@teranews>, Jan
Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> writes
>On a sunny day (Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:56:07 +0100) it happened Richard Herring
><junk@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in <IXcjTStHWh+CFwS5@baesystems.com>:
>
>>In message <1123684878.fc240c27e0ddca825ffa6c07f8d149b0@teranews>, Jan
>>Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> writes
>>>On a sunny day (10 Aug 2005 06:49:35 -0700) it happened
>>>news01@clupeid.demon.co.uk wrote in
>>><1123681775.486690.56720@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Andrew Swallow wrote:
>>>>> Alan Connor wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > On alt.privacy.anon-server, in
>>>>> ><pcdKe.3823$RS.943@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>, "Alan Connor"
>>>>> >
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>
>>>>> > Posting from google is for clueless windoze-weenies playing
>>>>> > with their Mommy's computer.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Because they usually post from somewhere else and are trying
>>>>> > to evade my killfile?
>>>>>
>>>>> AOL decided to "improve" the service it gives its customers. It stopped
>>>>> them accessing internet Newsgroups, except those AOL is the monopoly
>>>>> supplier of.
>>>>>
>>>>> Knowledgeable AOL users who wish to overcome its maliciously unfit for
>>>>> purpose product can do so by reading and writing through Google Groups.
>>>>
>>>>(Careful with that logical argument - you're setting yourself up for a
>>>>punishment killfiling ;-( )
>>>>
>>>>Some posters are compelled to use servers which drop anything
>>>>crossposted to groups they don't carry. Using Google as I'm doing now
>>>>is the only way to post to such threads.
>>>>
>>>>Some posters are behind corporate firewalls which insert nonsensical
>>>>disclaimers in outgoing emails, imposing impossible conditions on the
>>>>moderators of moderated groups. Again, using Google is the only way
>>>>under those circumstances to post to such groups.
>>
>>>>From experience:
>>>http://teranews.com/
[...]
>>
>>Fine if you can do it. Which parts of "compelled" and "firewall" did you
>>miss?

>What part of networks do you not understand?
>New to Usenet?

Hardly ;-)

>Read up on networking!

*You'd* do better to read up on phrases like "corporate security
policy", with particular attention to "disciplinary offence" and
"instant dismissal".

>Why not set up a small relay? Perhaps at home?

Technical solution to a social problem. Rarely satisfactory.

>Firewalls burn very well.

So do those who are logged trying to break them.

-- 
Richard Herring

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