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- From: rankin@mik.uky.edu (david w rankin jr)
- Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin,news.admin.policy
- Subject: Re: Does USENET condone CHILD PORNOGRAPHY?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.201053.6617@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 20:10:53 GMT
- Sender: news@ms.uky.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Kentucky
- Lines: 28
- Nntp-Posting-Host: nx08.mik.uky.edu
-
- (BTW: Thanks StarIwl for making taz@momad.UUCP's article at least
- readable, if not palatible.)
-
- I personally suggest that taz@momad.UUCP write a letter to the poster
- of said pictures, informing him of the possibly illegal nature of
- his pictures, then "rm" (or the equivalent) them from his news spool
- files, or cancel them, or however he/she deals with posts that are
- against his/her conscience.
-
- Otherwise, I think the idea that hundreds of users, universities, and
- companies will be hauled into court for distributing a small subset
- of data that MIGHT be pornographic, especially when it is a small
- subset of the megs and megs of data being passed every day, is
- quite absurd.
-
- I personally think that some of a.b.p.erotic's pictures are pleasing
- and some it is downright nauseating, but I cannot advocate the removal
- of anything on it without someone else fairly recommending that
- soc.religion.christian or alt.irc or even comp.binaries.mac be removed
- whenever something offensive passes through.
-
- Note: I am a University of Kentucky student. This post is my opinion, and
- does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University.
-
- --"When UK pays me money for my opinions, it can have them. Not before."--
- David W. Rankin, Jr., Mac Archiver for f.ms.uky.edu Packrat on IRC
- Main address: rankin@ms.uky.edu rankin@ukma.BITNET ...!gatech!ukma!rankin
- Alternates: rankin@mik.uky.edu djrank00@aix3090b.uky.edu
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