From: "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 04:17:45 +0800
To: jamesd@echeque.com
Subject: Re: Petty Civil Disobedience
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Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 9-Mar-96 Re: Petty Civil
Disobedience by jamesd@echeque.com 
> 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.

jef@well.com ran into this with his nude-of-the-month page; the WELL
fixed it by throttling. (JEF is the guy who wrote thttpd)

-Declan

PS: His page is at http://www.well.com/~jef/