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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:36:35 -0400
- From: "Steve D. Leu" <sl3w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: SYSOP BUSTED FOR PORNO IN OHIO!
- In-Reply-To: <ciZNoB2w165w@halcyon.com>
- References: <1992Jul27.005324.7370@bluemoon.rn.com>
- <ciZNoB2w165w@halcyon.com>
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- > PErhaps, someone should, to test this kinda case, go up to a public
- >bulliten board (cork/softwood kind, not computer) and post up a playboy
- >centerfold... then call the police and ask them to arrest the person who
- >put up the board... see what happens THEN.
-
- Point well taken, but...
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- the SysOp who got arrested was fully aware that minors were UL/DLing xxx
- pictures to his BBS. He made it possible that any person who logged on
- could go to the new uploads area and download a good amount of X-gifs.
- He never did make an attempt to check what was coming through his
- system and who was downloading what. The best way to ensure sysop
- immunity from this is to make the user agree that s/he is of legal age
- and to use that type of security on the BBS. If the user is the one
- lieing, then the sysop is not responsible for the user.
-
- I do not totally agree with the arrest, but that's life...
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- Steve Leu Home: Garrettsville, OH
- Internet: sl3w@andrew.cmu.edu <--- This address expires 8/1/92!
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- "Life is an endless sea of sorrow indispersed with few brief waves of
- joy"
- - Thomas Hardy
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- "Who's gonna ride your wild horses?" - U2 Achtung Bay
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- "After all these starts and stops, we keep coming back to these two hearts"
- - Peter Cetera
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