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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Net.Porn ?
Keywords: porn, underage, lawsuit
Message-ID: <1960@spdcc.COM>
Date: 1 Oct 88 02:43:30 GMT
References: <1278@cbnews.ATT.COM> <509@optilink.UUCP> <1957@spdcc.COM> <517@optilink.UUCP>
Reply-To: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
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Luckily, the vapidity of the argument that soc.motss would further the end
of the net-as-we-know-it was evident when the arguments for the group were
successfully presented 6 years ago.  Back then it was the mucky-mucks seeing
the group and pulling the plug on a site's entire USENET feed, now it's some
imaginary bogey-man of underage minors seeing soc.motss and, through being
"encouraged", engendering a lawsuit.  This is baseless and moronic fear-
mongering when you consider the swill that's routinely slung across the
USENET phone lines which hasn't even generated a note of concern.

Individual sites should take whatever steps they care to in choosing their
audience, depending on their level of paranoia.  However, I strongly suspect
that this topic has already had its beads of sweat squeezed out of it.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.harvard.edu
dyer@spdcc.COM aka {harvard,husc6,linus,ima,bbn,m2c,mipseast}!spdcc!dyer