Posted by laima on August 20, 2006, at 0:44:14
In reply to Re: University involvment-the Gayssot Act » laima, posted by Racer on August 19, 2006, at 17:50:31
Thanks! I used to know some people in Systems there...so I got a little worried about privacy for a moment.
> No, the site has nothing to do with University of Chicago.
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> Years back, when the site first started -- back in 1998, I think it was -- this was one bulletin board in Dr Bob's space on the UofC server. But he moved it to his own domain years ago. At this point, there's no relation whatsoever with the university. In the beginning, it was in their domain, but was never their site in any way.
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> So, in the beginning, there was a very slight connection to the university -- kinda like if you put up a webpage in your web-space on your ISP's server it would have their name on it -- like "myname.earthlink.com" or "www.aol.com/myname." Otherwise, there was never any real connection to the university, and there's not even that connection now.
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> Hope that helps clear it up for you.
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