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From: dwyer@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Eye's can deceive
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Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 14:34:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 10 14:34:00 1985
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Nf-From: inmet!dwyer    Oct 10 14:34:00 1985



I thought some people might be interested in the following letter
I am sending to the IEEE.  The address I am sending it to is:

	    IEEE Computer Society Press
	    1730 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
	    Washington, D.C.    20036-1903

I hope I posted this to the proper net group.  I didn't see a net.sexism,
net.exploit, or net.republican, so I sent it here.  

Here is the letter:


To whom it should concern,

	   I was pleased to receive my copy of IEEE Computer Society
	Publication's catalog.  It took me about ten minutes to see that
	the graphics on the cover, by Steve Smith of Genigraphics Corp.,
	contained a discernable image of a naked woman.  The problem
	with identifying this image is that it is printed upside down
	on the cover.

	   I don't have a problem with naked women, I happen to be
	married to one, but I think that a technical forum such as
	yours should not include sexually posed silhouettes.

	   You are, potentially, offending many people who didn't expect,
	or want, to see that image.

	                                  sincerely,

								   Matt Dwyer

End of letter:

If this generates any flames, please save them as winter is fast
approaching and you may need them.

matt