Comments on: Odd suspicions http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/09/11/odd-suspicions/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:09:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bene Diction http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/09/11/odd-suspicions/#comment-2871 Bene Diction Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:18:42 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=953#comment-2871 Good points Mark. We have a US endorsements and involvement, and one group may have charitable status. I know most of them don't though. My friend's work is not registered here in Canada as a charity. It has been considered, and rejected so far because the work can be done without that. He is a world wide expert as are some of the others he is trying to get to help with the site. They will not allow their research to be tainted by sponsored money, which I certainly respect given their subject matter. And the corporate interests and government involvement in maintaining the practises that are harming citizens in these countries are huge, I know it is only a matter of time before his site is attacked. Currently he and his friends are on a server outside the US. It's a hands on hosting, where potential tech attacks will be spotted and dealt with very quickly. Thanks. I think you voiced my 'gut' well for me. I'll pass your comment to them. Blog on! Good points Mark.

We have a US endorsements and involvement, and one group may have charitable status. I know most of them don’t though.

My friend’s work is not registered here in Canada as a charity. It has been considered, and rejected so far because the work can be done without that.
He is a world wide expert as are some of the others he is trying to get to help with the site. They will not allow their research to be tainted by sponsored money, which I certainly respect given their subject matter.

And the corporate interests and government involvement in maintaining the practises that are harming citizens in these countries are huge, I know it is only a matter of time before his site is attacked.

Currently he and his friends are on a server outside the US. It’s a hands on hosting, where potential tech attacks will be spotted and dealt with very quickly.

Thanks. I think you voiced my ‘gut’ well for me.
I’ll pass your comment to them. Blog on!

]]> By: Mark Byron http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/09/11/odd-suspicions/#comment-2870 Mark Byron Sun, 12 Sep 2004 07:41:52 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=953#comment-2870 I don't know what paperwork is required to get a Charitable Registration Number up north, but a 501(c)3 filing isn't easy; I'd rather pay a few bucks a month for basic hosting that spend days a year doing forms and having meetings of the board of your charity if the charity is merely a fancy name for your blog. However, if you have lots of time and little money, it might be worth it. If you have a secular progressive charity, they might be a good place to hang your hat, but you're not secular or a charity. I'd not get too spooked over the AEI efforts; that's not much more than opposition research that political groups routinely do on their foes. The piece seems a bit too over the top in deliniating what AEI and other American conservatives are up to. Baring a password system, the Internet allows for all traffic, unwelcome or not, to come through. It would be hard to keep your political foes to come looking. However, you're even-handed and mild-mannered enough so that you're unlikely to be on too many people's enimies list. My other though on why Grassroots might be problematic: Could a seriously-left-leaning server be vunerable to a denial-of-service attack from some malicious right-wing group? Yes. Is that enough to turn down a freebie? I don't think so. For a while, I stashed some pictures and other files of a free Christian web hosting site; they wound up pulling the free offer after a while. That could have been done in by a DOS attack as well from some disgruntled secularist, which seem to be more likely than militant anarchocapitalists. I don’t know what paperwork is required to get a Charitable Registration Number up north, but a 501(c)3 filing isn’t easy; I’d rather pay a few bucks a month for basic hosting that spend days a year doing forms and having meetings of the board of your charity if the charity is merely a fancy name for your blog. However, if you have lots of time and little money, it might be worth it.

If you have a secular progressive charity, they might be a good place to hang your hat, but you’re not secular or a charity.

I’d not get too spooked over the AEI efforts; that’s not much more than opposition research that political groups routinely do on their foes. The piece seems a bit too over the top in deliniating what AEI and other American conservatives are up to.

Baring a password system, the Internet allows for all traffic, unwelcome or not, to come through. It would be hard to keep your political foes to come looking. However, you’re even-handed and mild-mannered enough so that you’re unlikely to be on too many people’s enimies list.

My other though on why Grassroots might be problematic: Could a seriously-left-leaning server be vunerable to a denial-of-service attack from some malicious right-wing group? Yes. Is that enough to turn down a freebie? I don’t think so.

For a while, I stashed some pictures and other files of a free Christian web hosting site; they wound up pulling the free offer after a while. That could have been done in by a DOS attack as well from some disgruntled secularist, which seem to be more likely than militant anarchocapitalists.

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