From: roy@sendai.scytale.com (Roy M. Silvernail)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 13:29:48 +0800
To: hfinney@shell.portal.com (Hal)
Subject: Re: Anonymous web servers
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In list.cypherpunks, hfinney@shell.portal.com writes about anonymous web
pages:

<snip>
> In some ways the role of the "meeting place" software is similar to an
> IRC server.  In fact, this concept could be thought of as HTTP over
> IRC.
>
> The big question mark is whether the meeting place would be blamed for
> the possibly illicit transactions it facilitates.
</snip>

I see a big parallel to the remailers.  Both are simply conduits.
Remailers have already been attacked for the content they've passed.
HTTP meeting places will surely catch the same kind of heat.
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