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| - There are mutant websites out there, like Sin d'Rome's Mercenary Emporium, but you won't find them searching Google. Even if you know the URL, your browser might block it, presenting a 404 message. So don't even try. Even if your browser will allow .mut websites, finding them is still a trick, given the dearth of web spiders that will index them. Mwa-ha-ha!
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| - There are mutant websites out there, like Sin d'Rome's Mercenary Emporium, but you won't find them searching Google. Even if you know the URL, your browser might block it, presenting a 404 message. So don't even try. All the official ‘mutant’ URLs had to use the .mut postfix so that they could be easily blocked by anyone who felt they were inappropriate. Libraries, government agencies, all major email and web services, schools, parents, you name it. The legit web spiders like Google and Yahoo wouldn’t even search the .mut webpages, and webservers weren’t supposed to cache any pages from .mut sites, so people couldn’t find that icky mutant badness that the MCO was so worried about, unless they already knew where to go. And no one was going to guess that URL without using a little mutant clairvoyance first. Even if your browser will allow .mut websites, finding them is still a trick, given the dearth of web spiders that will index them. Hmm… There was probably a market for a .mut-only web spider. I’d have to look into that before someone beat me to it. But it was liable to be problematic, due to all the possible problems I could foresee. Performing the searches would be complicated, and might step on the wrong toes. Privacy would be a killer. I mean, what supervillain wants his email address or real address known? I wondered how Sin d’Rome handled that. Or hackers: every computer deviser on the planet would want those weblogs, not to mention the MCO, and a few thousand other people who shouldn’t have them. I’d have to talk to some computer-oriented devisers and gadgeteers before I tackled that idea. Or else… Mwa-ha-ha! I hadn’t bothered to tell Stopwatch just how I was solving his web-spider problem. I was solving it by turning the website over to someone who could run it without fear of reprisals from supervillains. No badguy was going to think their IP address was going to get turned over to Lady Astarte or Champion if the people running it already had a rep. So I was giving it to Jadis, and Mal would keep it running. After all, it was only a useful idea for the right people. And what supervillain on earth would worry about the children of Dr. Diabolik?
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