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Subject: Re: CCC Search Engine will not be hosted by me anymore

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 19:11:00 12/15/03

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On December 15, 2003 at 00:32:45, Lech Mazur wrote:

>Unfortunately, I will not be able to host the CCC search engine on any of my
>servers any longer. This time, it has nothing to do with the bandwidth use or
>server resources. Somebody has contacted my hosting provider with a request to
>remove one thread and they in turn emailed me:
>
>"The URL(S) stated above is in violation by way of involvement in of
>malicious slander and stalking activities.  We request the entire
>thread be removed."
>
>Unfortunately, I missed this email and the IP was blocked. This is a problem,
>because this IP was also used for other things and I don't need any problems
>like this with my other sites or with my server provider. Even if I did read
>this email on time, I am not willing to spend time removing and monitoring
>threads or worrying about any future problems like this, just for providing a
>free service.
>
>I won't post here which thread it was because I don't want to get involved in
>this whole thing.
>
>Hopefully, somebody else will step up to host this valuable resource. I'd like
>to thank Andrei Fortuna for writing the search engine and setting it up.

Your voluntary services have been much appreciated by those who knew about it.
Unfortunately, it appears that all good things must come to an end.  You cannot
keep on doing volunteer work forever.  Volunteer work should be rotated so that
no single individual has to carry the entire load forever.  Maybe another
experienced CCC programmer will pick up the task.

Incidentally, I catagorically reject the notion that there was, is, or ever will
be anything illegal about any of the CCC threads.  I read most of them.  Perhaps
intimidation is being used here.  If so, it is a sham.

Bob D.



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