Re: PRE-DOWNLOAD SITES?

From: Ambrose Li [EDP] <acli@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:48:32 -0500

On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 12:28:03PM +0000, Dave J Woolley wrote:
>
> > e.g so it would fetch the entire site over nitem and in the morning i
> > could
> > surf it through cache?
> >
> Many commercial sites consider this to be unauthorised
> access (i.e. hacking). Please get written permission
> before attempting it.

Why would this be considered hacking? Can you explain? This can be
done with standard tools and the fact that a school (the teachers,
not the students) had done it has been published in Linux Journal.

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