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From: preece@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Using the Net to Help Find Missing K - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 26-Oct-83 00:26:25 EDT
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uicsl!preece    Oct 19 12:03:00 1983

The idea of using the net to help recover missing kids is a noble one,
but I can't see it working in practice.  The key step in the recoveries
triggered by the TV show last week was the presentation of PICTURES of the
kids.  Unless you've got a major new technology for us, we can't do that.
I can't see myself wading through hundreds of text descriptions of kids
on the possibility that one might suggest some peculiarity of a kid
I know.

The problem is that, since a large percentage of the cases are parental
abductions, there's nothing even remotely suspicious about the resulting
family.  Should I suspect every single parent of having a kid for which
he/she is not the sanctioned custodian?

I guess lists of names of parent abductors might be reasonable; I don't
suppose most of them change their names.  But I don't really think that
the circle of acquaintance of the whole net readership is large enough
to cover much of the total population.

scott preece
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