Phil and Fraser did, by putting it on a public web server and pointing the dns record for the name bautforum.com at it, and mentioning it on their web pages and by stating that you can use it in the terms of service.

None of those actions have equivalents to running an unsecured wi-fi router.

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‘To those who regard “crime fiction” as some sacred icon which must follow a rigid formula, I will always be the man who writes 18-syllable haiku.’Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.