From: "wayne clerke" <wclerke@emirates.net.ae>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:29:08 +0800
To: "Lance Cottrell" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Subject: RE: FCPUNX:Anonymous IRC (was 'Cypherpunks IRC Christmas Eve Party')
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Message-ID: <199801191015.GAA19793@ns2.emirates.net.ae>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lance Cottrell [mailto:loki@infonex.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 1998 5:08 AM
> To: wayne clerke; cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
> Subject: Re: FCPUNX:Anonymous IRC (was 'Cypherpunks IRC Christmas Eve
> Party')

[...]

> >What's the reason behind the policy direction against the use of personal
web
> >proxies running in a (paid for) shell account?
> >Seems like less risk than you already accept anyway. Something I've
missed?
> >
>
> System load is the issue in this case. If a proxy becomes publicly known
> the load it imposes on the system could quickly become gigantic. In
> addition we found that people were setting up proxies on any old port,
> sometimes causing all kinds of conflicts.
>
> Our accounts are priced assuming light personal usage. Running servers on
> our systems is negotiable.

It seems this was just stated on the list for advertizing purposes.

It's not so negotiable that private emails are responded to.

>
> 	-Lance
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Lance Cottrell   loki@infonex.com
> PGP 2.6 key available by finger or server.
> http://www.infonex.com/~loki/

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