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From: jwi@lzfme.att.com (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: X-rated GIF files
Summary: Move this to talk.bizzare
Keywords: rude censorship
Message-ID: <1351@lzfme.att.com>
Date: 17 May 89 17:35:32 GMT
References: <6138@ux.cs.man.ac.uk> <283@indri.primate.wisc.edu> <10707@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
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In article <10707@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, bdiscoe@tybalt.caltech.edu (Ben W. Discoe) writes:

> >>>Does anyone know of any sources for X-rated GIF files?  

> >> Get lost.

> >Seconded.

> What is this, a convention of puritans?  The inquisition?  There are two sides
> to pornography, and if it happens to offend you, nobody says you have to see
> it!  I'm quite shocked to see a system as <usually> open-minded as the net
> cluttered with COMPLETELY useless and inappropriate insults.

The objection is not to pornography, it's to posting this on
comp.graphics. If you want pornography, post to talk.bizzare.

***** Please note ***** This is not cross posted to
talk.bizarre. They (the bizzarites) tend to cross post a lot and we
don't need it.

> When I originally saw this posting, *I* ignored it because "X-rated" is boring,
> XX or XXX is more to MY taste.  But I see that there are people of quite
> opposite viewpoints who feel the need to blast their trite, most likely
> hypocritical insults at a simple, straightforward posting...

XXX has actually gotten somewhat boring -- maybe I've just seen more of
it than you have.

> The reason I'm bothering to post is because I would also appreciate references
> to pornographic GIF files, anon ftp of course, better quality preferred.  If
> pornography offends you, THIS newsgroup isn't the place to discuss it!

If you get any, post a summary somewhere else.

> ... Ben Discoe, starving tech student and endangered liberal at large.

If you didn't spend so much on porn, you might not be starving.

Jim Winer ..!lzfme!jwi 

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