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Politech archive on Peekabooty: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=peekabooty Well, maybe "vaporware" is a touch too strong. But wasn't it supposed to be released last summer? -Declan --- From: "Steven C. Williams" <stevewil@glo.org> To: <declan@well.com> Cc: <doran@brandx.com> Subject: choking peek-a-booty Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:36:54 -0800 hi, Declan and Doran: Ominous note sent to http://peek-a-booty.org about how encrypted browser might be stifled from distribution: quoted from http://www.peek-a-booty.org/pbhtml/article.php?sid=16 "The software hasn't even been released and yet its already setting off bells. It seems that a nameless backbone provider for our host is worried that we might run Peekabooty clandestinely somewhere we're not supposed to... "We recently received this very pleasant email from addr.com, our host:" >Per the request of our backbone provider we have taken a look at your site and it is within our Acceptable User Policy and have informed them. However, please understand that the software itself, if run on our servers would be against our Acceptable User Policy. Best Regards, John C. ........ System Administrator administrator@addr.com Addr.com Support "So, for the record: we promise that we will not to run Peekabooty on your servers." There will undoubtedly be more salvos thrown before this one is over... best, steve *********************** Steven C. Williams, PhD stevewil@glo.org http://www.glo.org *********************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------