1996-01-31 - Re: Handy WWW anonymizer proxy and translator!

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From: “Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin” <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
To: llurch@networking.stanford.edu (Rich Graves)
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Message ID: <199601311306.IAA26970@dal1820.computek.net>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-01-31 13:29:51 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 21:29:51 +0800

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From: "Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin" <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 21:29:51 +0800
To: llurch@networking.stanford.edu (Rich Graves)
Subject: Re: Handy WWW anonymizer proxy *and* translator!
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> Not only does it prevent the nasties from logging where you're coming 
> from, but it also translates to Canadian on the fly, eh?

I thought it was hilarious, but my spouse (who is Canadian) found it less 
humorous.  I still got a little mileage out of using the words "hoser" 
and "hosehead" for a few days ;)

> For an example, see "The Great Web Canadianizer" at
> http://www.io.org/~themaxx/canada/can.html

> To thwart censorship of specific sites, people who have a bit of bandwidth
> to spare could set up cgi scripts like this one (without the text modification
> the Canadianizer does -- that's its hack).  (Zundel's stuff is no less
> offensive after the Canadianizer adds a bunch of "eh?"s and "hosers" and
> changes all the "-ing"s to "-in'".)

I wrote the author some time back in hopes of getting the source, but no 
luck :(  Anyone have source for this or similar?  I'd be happy to put it 
up on my web site (http://dal1820.computek.net).
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