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From: barry@eos.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: X-rated GIF files
Keywords: rude censorship
Message-ID: <3668@eos.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 89 16:42:39 GMT
References: <6138@ux.cs.man.ac.uk> <283@indri.primate.wisc.edu> <10707@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <1351@lzfme.att.com>
Reply-To: barry@eos.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
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In article <1351@lzfme.att.com> jwi@lzfme.att.com (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) writes:
>In article <10707@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, bdiscoe@tybalt.caltech.edu (Ben W. Discoe) writes:
>> 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.

	Lemme guess: you've made a bet with someone about how many silly
things you can say in one short sentence, and the sentence above is your
masterpiece?
	First off, talk.bizarre has nothing to do with porn. You want
porn, go to alt.sex. Second, the original posting was a simple request
for information, "where can I find X-rated GIFs on the wire?" That's
neither more nor less appropriate to this newsgroup than "where can I
find Star Trek pics to download". What's inappropriate here are moral
pronouncements; there are other newsgroups for that.

>> 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.

	I disagree, and object. I urge the original poster to post a
summary of any information he gets.

>> ... Ben Discoe, starving tech student and endangered liberal at large.
>
>If you didn't spend so much on porn, you might not be starving.

	There are also other newsgroup for cheap shots.

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