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RE: Anonymous IRC (was "Cypherpunks IRC Christmas Eve Party")
On Tuesday, December 30, 1997 7:56 AM, Mark Hedges [SMTP:[email protected]] wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Mark Hedges
> Infonex and Anonymizer
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