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  2. │Submitted by: Steve Jender                                                   │
  3. │                                                                             │
  4. │              MAN BAKES CAKE WITH RECIPE FOUND ON INTERNET!                  │
  5. │                                                                             │
  6. │Hamilton, New Zealand. 8-Aug-1995                                            │
  7. │                                                                             │
  8. │A Hamilton (New Zealand) Analyst Programmer, Simon Travaglia, was            │
  9. │caught last week baking a cake from a recipe he found 'On the                │
  10. │Internet..'.  Police were called in when neighbours became suspicious        │
  11. │about 'bakery smells' wafting into their homes from Travaglia's              │
  12. │residence.  Police noted that Travaglia had in his posession                 │
  13. │sophisticated cake-baking apparatus including an oven and several            │
  14. │professionally crafted spatulas, which, if used properly, could have         │
  15. │produced 10 or more cakes in a single day.                                   │
  16. │                                                                             │
  17. │  Police also found a stockpile of cakes, including several banana           │
  18. │cakes, two chocolate cakes, and a self-saucing pudding.  At the time         │
  19. │of his arrest, Mr Travaglia was apparently in the process of making          │
  20. │several scones which were appeared destined to be stored in                  │
  21. │'scone-caches' around the city.  The Police also found was a larder          │
  22. │full of ingredients with an estimated street value of several dollars.       │
  23. │                                                                             │
  24. │                                                                             │
  25. │  Experts who examined one cake surmised that it had an estimated            │
  26. │yield of "8 slices, possibly 10 if you cut it up thinner".                   │
  27. │                                                                             │
  28. │    A well-known member of parliament has renewed his calls for              │
  29. │censorship of "Usenet News"  groups which distribute such material.          │
  30. │He says:  "We are faced with a situation whereby school-age-children,        │
  31. │without the knowledge of their parents, can download recipes by the          │
  32. │dozen, and store them in encrypted form on the computer.  Parents            │
  33. │cannot be expected to Police this information, and it is time                │
  34. │legislation was put into place to prevent the distribution of these          │
  35. │recipes and punish those responsible for attempting it."                     │
  36. │                                                                             │
  37. │  When it was pointed out that several similar recipes were available        │
  38. │at many public libraries, the Minister indicated that libraries were         │
  39. │in a position to control access to these books both by placing them in       │
  40. │prominent places under the watchful eyes of library staff and also on        │
  41. │the top shelves of book stacks.  He similarly refuted claims that            │
  42. │cakes such as the ones found could be made by any third year cookery         │
  43. │student.                                                                     │
  44. │                                                                             │
  45. │"These cakes" he said "were not made by trial and error.  I have been        │
  46. │assured by experts that the icing on the top of the chocolate cake in        │
  47. │particular was applied by a practised hand.  If this information is          │
  48. │out there, it will be found and used, and it's obvious that the              │
  49. │Internet has NO conscience when it comes to the distribution of sweet        │
  50. │foods.  We must act, and we must act now!"                                   │
  51. │                                                                             │
  52. │Meantime the Police have confirmed that despite all attempts to the          │
  53. │contrary, three of the seized cakes had 'gone off'.  On this occasion,       │
  54. │no-one was seriously injured, although one officer was taken to sick         │
  55. │bay with 'a sore tummy'. --                                                  │
  56. │                                                                             │
  57. │I found this message on the EFA echo, originally posted by David             │
  58. │Maddison, and thought you might appreciate it.  :-)                          │
  59. │                                                                             │
  60. │Steve                                                                        │
  61. │                                                                             │
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