Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!well!pokey
From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: X-rated GIF files - some people take this very seriously
Message-ID: <11834@well.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 89 11:20:48 GMT
References: <11745@well.UUCP>
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, I wrote:
}               The single best N bit to 1 bit quantization that I've
}seen so far happened to be a high-res split-beaver shot.  Although I
}don't generally keep porn images, I kept this one as you say "for
}testing purposes".

Although I haven't heard anything through channels yet, some of the
powers at LBL have apparently gotten upset over this statement.  So
even though it will ruin my reputation as a flamer, I guess I have to
admit that I lied.  There is no pornography stored at LBL, not even
test images.  There is nothing in my bitmap collection, public or
private, that could get a rating higher than PG-13.  In fact, one of
the motivations for putting together my bitmap collection in the first
place was that all the other bitmap collections I had seen were full
of pornography, and I wanted to make something better available.

It is true that the best quantization job I've seen was pornographic.
I did not keep it, because at a government lab you have to be careful
about how things might look to the press.  Even if it interferes with
your research.
---
Jef

            Jef Poskanzer   jef@helios.ee.lbl.gov   ...well!pokey
Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again
                     today -- I think he's from the CIA.