Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
by brianmurphy on Thursday December 01, 2016 @12:16AM
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In the old days (90s-2000s), allowing IRC bots opened yourself to being a DoS target and general receiver of harassment complaints from perceived social abuses that happened in the chat rooms. I assume things haven't changed that much.
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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
by Karunamon on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:56AM
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All major IRC networks hide your IP address when you connect now (mode +x), but I bet the perception still exists. Most of these ToS'es are thoughtless copypasta from other services.. every now and then there's a Show HN from a new hosting company that has absurd nonsense in their terms, and the creator gets suitably chastised for it.