From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-01-17 07:11:39 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 15:11:39 +0800
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 15:11:39 +0800
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Spiderspace
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Bill mentions 'archie'; it's interesting to note that the problem of
stuff that wasn't supposed to be public turning up in archie listings
dates back to at least 1991. Amongst the problems were hosts of the form
ftp.<foo>.com which had anyonmous ftp, but which weren't supposed to be
public, and of files put up on such sites but not announced, usually by
support people transferring a file to some customer which then got picked
up in the sweep.
Then of course, there was the time in 1993 when someone left a
world-writable directory on the X consortium web site intowhich someone
uploaded 300Mb of pornographic jpegs. This happened over the weekend, so
they had a nice long chance to sit there while all the mirror sites
happily duplicated them. If it was your turn to be archied whilst those
files were there, you were in the database till your next sweep. All
those Horny net geeks who found the directories empty would then send
plaintive messages asking where the files were, and how to join the gif club.
Simon
(defun modexpt (x y n) "computes (x^y) mod n"
(cond ((= y 0) 1)
((= y 1) (mod x n))
((evenp y) (mod (expt (modexpt x (/ y 2) n) 2) n))
(t (mod (* x (modexpt x (1- y) n)) n))))
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