# Has godhatesfags.com been shut down?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 3, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-godhatesfags-com-been-shut-down/577068 "2011-04-03T20:14:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-godhatesfags-com-been-shut-down/577068/21 "2011-04-05T12:19:54Z")

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> [@Princhester](#):
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> This is the second time you’ve posted this in the last month or so, and as I said the last time, I think you misunderstand. Anonymous just do whatever damage to their chosen target they can. What they can do just depends on what they manage to hack. A DDoS attack does not of itself give access to internal emails. IIUC it doesn’t have anything to do with emails at all.

Indeed. And even if they disabled the web server not through DDoS but by gaining unauthorised access to it, they still might not have gotten any e-mails. It’s entirely possible that the mail server is separate from the web server, or that the users download mail to their local machines rather than accessing it online through IMAP or web mail.

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