On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 17:55:10 +0100, "Steve" wrote:
"Old Nick" wrote in message
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On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 00:55:10 -0700, "SteveB"
vaguely proposed a theory

BTW..............What "people in charge"? This is the Net!

I think he just blew his bandwidth on the server and got shut down. It got
to be a pretty popular site.

I don't think that was the issue. Purdue's servers have OC3 links
to the backbone (they handle student use of Kazaa, so they can
certainly handle hits to a faculty webpage). I strongly suspect it
was the content that got him shut down.

First they made him remove all references to his non-fluorocarbon
(non-Dupont) auto refrigerant (which works better than R12, is a
simple non-proprietary mixture, and has *zero* chlorine to affect
the ozone layer, unlike R134A)). There was some real big money
corporate and government politics going on there since it made
Dupont's chicanery with R134A look like the crooked manipulation
of government regulations it is.

He talked openly about that on the web page. This appears to be
the main issue that got him in trouble with the university (he works
for Purdue's IT department), ie he stepped on a big donor's toes.

Then they made him remove the recreational LOX pyrotechnics.
Not politically correct, bad example for youth, homeland security,
yada yada. At that point there was basically nothing left of his
web pages, so he shut them down completely.

Gary