From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 00:10:31 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Petty Civil Disobedience
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jamesd@echeque.com writes:
> At 10:31 AM 3/9/96 -0500, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:
> > Perhaps we should put up our own protest web sites with one or two
> > explicit sexual images as real civil disobedience?
>
> Major problem here is that ten million horny geeks are likely to bring
> your server to its knees, but if one only has one image, and it is
> moderately small, say thirty thousand bytes, perhaps the flood would
> taper off eventually.

That's a good idea for a civil disobedience campaign: get a picture you
like from alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.*, shrink it to 20K or 30K, and
make it available on your homepage as ObCDA. Everybody who's got a home
page should display one. :-)

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