Since I have one of my "spam buster" email filters set on the word "porn" I had to dig this thread out of my deleted folder. That is good news, bad news. The filter worked, but I might have missed some interesting CF-Talk chatter as the result. Never thought that word would show up here.
Michael Gribbin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Lurie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 7:02 PM Subject: RE: OT - Porn sites have their uses > Kind of like the military industrial complex driving the space program, only > with more naked people. Very effective analogy :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:25 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: OT - Porn sites have their uses > > > Michael makes a good point. While we may or may not approve of the content > of porn sites - that's obviously a moral issue - the problems they face and > the techniques they adopt to solve them are interesting indeed. For every > concern we might have about hacking or theft or unauthorised entry, porn > sites have the problem tenfold. I bet every problem you fret about, > someone in a porn site has solved it already. > > > While the morality or otherwise of adult sites is off topic here, it's got > to be acknowledged that adult sites are driving many of the techniques of > web business along and very fast. For example, it was the adult sites that > forced the development of techniques of handling images and thumbnails. > They were the ones to perfect credit card transactions on the net, they > drove password protection schemes (stopping people sharing passwords) and > many other things. Not to mention streaming of video, and the benefits (or > otherwise) of popup windows, banners, the multitude of ever-more-creative > ways of driving traffic from one site to another, using the same content on > multiple sites. They are the ones that are driving the supply of ever > increasing bandwidth. > > > And of course don't forget the constant back and forth battle between the > search engines and the porn sites is forcing the search engines to get > better at what they do, in order to keep porn sites out and the sites they > want in. > > > Then there are the less-savoury techniques they're developing. Like > stealing bandwidth, copyright issues that are being resolved in order to > stop the wholesale theft of images. Then there is the scam I read about not > so long ago where a porn site grabbed a legitimate and quite high-traffic > domain name, and redirected it to their porn site. People reasonably > trying to find out something about their electricity utility or some such > were suddenly presented with a porn site, which promptly opened half a dozen > windows for their other sites. > > > All these things -both good and bad - are driving changes on the web. The > bad things cause the rest of us to develop defences against hackers and > unsavoury practices. The good things give us all benefits we can employ on > our own sites. > > > > We ought to be watching the developments in porn sites - not for titillation > but for professional education. Those guys are way ahead of us in > technology. And while I don't know for sure, I'd be willing to bet that > the real figures would show that at least 5 of the top ten money makers on > the web are porn sites. > > > Cheers, > Mike Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > AFP WebWorks > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 6:30 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: OT(apologies) > > For those who do not understand the reference, whitehouse.com is not a > government site. It is an adult site that uses the whitehouse name to get > people to come in. I can't say if it is using CF or not (I don't know) but > I do know programmers for adult sites who use CF for their work. A lot of > user and login managment is done in CF to protect these sites against fraud > (multiple people logging in under a single username). > While I don't approve of these sites, I do find the problems and solutions > that they face interesting. > > At 02:21 PM 12/13/01, you wrote: > >Dude. Don't post that in here. I don't really think that's appropriate... > > > >(Not that I care, but someone else just might...) > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 9:51 AM > >To: CF-Talk > >Subject: RE: OT(apologies) > > > > > >www.whitehouse.com > > > >On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Kris Pilles wrote: > > > > > half.com victorias secret.com > > > New York State > > > New Mexico > > > Federal Government > > > Aol (corporate site) > > > Eminem.com > > > > > > Theres tons of them > > > > > > Kris Pilles > > > Website Manager > > > Western Suffolk BOCES > > > 507 Deer Park Rd., Building C > > > Phone: 631-549-4900 x 267 > > > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Moneymaker, Jon S CONT (WPNSTA Yorktown) > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 12:37 PM > > > To: CF-Talk > > > Subject: OT(apologies) > > > > > > > > > Ok, I have lurked on this list for some time now and remember some > > > time ago a brief flurry of activity about "who uses CF in the real > > > world." I seem to recall a list somewhere or an article someone wrote > > > about some of the big companies who use CF.... I was asked this > > > question the other day and could only come up with a couple....(I > > > choked actually)..... > > > > > > any help would be appreciated. > > > > > > Ya'll (guess what part of the country I am in) are great.... > > > > > > Jon S. Moneymaker > > > Network Administrator > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
