Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG web space project
From: Alfred Breull <puma@hannover.sgh-net.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 19:08:53 +0200

What is it, Dan, that you try to tell me - something like Leica Camera
or the Catholic Church would rent a domain from Francesco, Five Senses 
Productions, who is associated with copyright violations and porn ?

Or is it a mere technical description ?

Difference is, that you know. And that you can decide against it.

Alf

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At 06:57 18.06.1998 -0500, you wrote:
>I realize what you are saying, but nothing is stopping Francesco from
>registering some domain name on his server, and inviting LUGers to submit
>photographs to it.  I understand that you will not participate (you are
>perfectly in your right not to), but others may. 
>
>One other point.  You refer to finding the suggested LUG image "between
>porn sites".  I'm not sure what you mean here.  Let us say thay we find
>someone elses ISP (perhaps your's) to host the page.  I have no idea who
>else is sharing space on that server.  The most disgusting and depraved
>images may be just a few cylinder heads (or whatever hard disks are
>subdivided into these days) away from our images.  The typical ISP has
>thousands of customers.  He isn't going to tell you who they are.  And
>judging from the sheer number of porn sites out there, I am sure that the
>vast majority of web servers in the world are going to have porn on them.
>
>Dan C.


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Alfred Breull
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