Subj : Re: FidoNet; Ken Kaplan - and the future
To   : Paulie420
From : Atreyu
Date : Wed Dec 04 2024 11:18 pm

On 04 Dec 24  19:21:31, Paulie420 said the following to Atreyu:

P>  At> That crackdown still happens today, at least in Canada. ISP's have it i
P>  At> their AUP's that one is not permitted to have any files of a
P>  At> hacking/phreaking nature hosted on their infrastructure. Doesn't matter
P>  At> if all those files from  the 80's/90's are obsolete/completely useless
P>  At> nowadays.
P> 
P> Like CURRENT DAY hacking/phreaking infoz/files, or even 40 year old data/inf
P> that aren't even a thing in modern tech??? 

Yup....

As someone running a hosting business out of his tiny apartment.... Its just 
not worth "risking it" with my ISP by putting that nonsense up for download.

I wrote all kinds of code to integrate Searchlight's Spinnaker web-server with
Renegade and D'Bridge - For the sole purpose of putting massive archives of
Echomail and Usenet groups for public access. I could turn this on seconds. 
Had Spinnaker running flawlessly where it looked better than SBBS's web stuff.

All of that stopped when I carefully reviewed my ISP's AUP regarding what is a
grey area of offensive content or things that could be construed as illegal or
problematic from their perspective. Goodies I have here like the complete
archive of alt.suicide.holiday or the many alt.flame.[insert ethnicity] groups
for example. You *cannot* host these things on the web on a Canadian ISP.

Atreyu

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