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From: bryden@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Christopher F. Bryden)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,alt.sex,alt.flame,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: X-rated GIF files
Message-ID: <3665@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 18 May 89 19:10:26 GMT
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Reply-To: bryden@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Christopher F. Bryden)
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In article barry@eos.UUCP (Kenn Barry) writes:
}In article jwi@lzfme.att.com (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) writes:
}>In article bdiscoe@tybalt.caltech.edu (Ben W. Discoe) writes:
}>The objection is not to pornography, it's to posting this on
}>comp.graphics. If you want pornography, post to talk.bizzare.

Um, I think that the people in talk.bizzare just got insulted.
But, that's alright they're used to it.

}	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

Um, I think the people who post to alt.sex just got insulted.  Actually,
they were probably amazed at Jim (*cough*) Winer's ability to insult his
own intelligence.  Definitions of what is pornographic vary ; apparently
the world's definitions revolve around Jim.

OK, call for a new news group comp.graphics.questionable.requests

}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.

Oh, say like, misc.wanted?  The star trek request would have meet less 
resistance... infact, people might have been obliged to respond to that
request.  Some people feel that, in a very stylized way, star trek is
pornographic.  ...ying yang black is white and white is back... let's
strike a deal : I won't shove my moral definitions down your throat and
in return, you won't shove your moral definitions down mine.

}>> pornography offends you, THIS newsgroup isn't the place to discuss it!
}	There are also other newsgroup for cheap shots.

Oh, you mean like alt.flame!  Don't get the idea that this is a cheap shot
just because I'm posting this there.  This converstion really has no relivance
to comp.graphics, and one of the best ways to get an unwanted topic out of
a news group is to cross post.

Chris
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