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From: kassover@jupiter.crd.ge.com (David Kassover)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Nude images removed from wuarchive
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Date: 9 Mar 90 16:07:34 GMT
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In article <1990Mar8.222758.8166@cs.utk.edu> battle@cs.utk.edu (David Battle) writes:
>From wuarchive.wustl.edu ~ftp/graphics/gif/R_X_rated/README:
>
>> We're sorry, but the R_X_rated directory of GIF files has been taken
>> off-line due to questions about its usefulness as a research and/or
>> academic tool as required by the Appropriate Use Guidelines for the
>> Internet.
>

Hmm..  This is pure speculation, but it's possible that, in spite
of the wording of the announcement, the institution(s) involved
may be simply trying to cut costs, one of them being the network
bandwidth necessary to ship this stuff around.

If that is so, and if they have analyzed the traffic and found
that the requests for X material were highly disproportionate to
other stuff, then quoting the document mentioned above may be
their attempt to avoid a firestorm about
censorship/constitutional rights to access the net, and so forth.
 
Or one of their funding sources twigged them about what they were
using the funds for...