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- From: gelly@persoft.com (Brewing Chemist Mitch)
- Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin,news.admin.policy
- Subject: Re: Does USENET condone CHILD PORNOGRAPHY?
- Keywords: peche kriek framboise faro gueuze
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.145843.20613@persoft.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 14:58:43 GMT
- Article-I.D.: persoft.1992Nov10.145843.20613
- References: <RZx+qAYLBh107h@momad.UUCP> <BxDtoz.17p@unix.amherst.edu> <7Ef-qAbEBh107h@momad.UUCP>
- Organization: Persoft, Inc.
- Lines: 56
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- In article <7Ef-qAbEBh107h@momad.UUCP> taz%momad@infoserv.com writes:
- >In <BxDtoz.17p@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
- >>In article <nsF-qA2KBh107h@momad.UUCP> taz%momad@infoserv.com writes:
- >
- >>> ... because it is a FEDERAL OFFENSE to distribute child
- >>> pornography over state lines. This includes distribution by COMPUTERS
- >>> over state lines.
- >
- >>Well, Taz, old pal. According to the header of this message, yours is
- >>a UUCP site hanging off of infoserv.com. According to your
- >>.signature, momad is a BBS. So I find it unlikely -- and I will be
- >>happy to apologize profusely if I am wrong -- that momad distributes
- >>news to *any* other computer, let alone one across the state line. So
- >>what are you so worried about?
- >
- > #1) Yes, I happen to feed out to a couple of nodes, but they are from
- >
- > #2) 80% of the callers to my system are from OUT OF STATE!
-
- Hey, so drop a.b.p.e from your distribution !! Or would you lose most of
- your clients and business ??
-
- >>>What I want is a discussion of this issue, and get it resolved quickly, bef
- >>>the news media hears about this, because you better believe that this will
- >>>be quite a sticky issue, and will endanger the a.b.p.e. newsgroup.
- >
- >>Shall I say it? ... Nah, I'd better not.
- >
- > Why not.. Go for it!
-
- Imminent Death of The Net !!!!
-
- >--
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Modem Madness __________________ 500 MEGz of GIFs
- > BBS _/ || ~-_ Adult Access
- > 516-295-xxxx ,/ // /~- / ~-_ ________---------------//
-
-
- Adult access huh? Sounds like you're making money offering access to a.b.p.e.,
- so if you can't *afford* to drop it from your site, impose yourself as local
- moderator.
-
- I *wish* we got a.b.p.e. at our site ;-) - or 95% of the alt groups for that
- matter.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Mitch
-
-
- --
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