[9050] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: sleaze
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Tully)
Wed Dec 15 11:04:12 1993
From: tully@cscns.com (Ed Tully)
To: postman@lists.psi.com (Dave Bachmann)
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 93 9:00:31 MST
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9312151501.AA42601@bachmann.austin.ibm.com>; from "Dave Bachmann" at Dec 15, 93 9:01 am
That't today. Tomorrow is different!
>
> > This still begs the question of personal choice of what gets in to the
> > unsuspecting innocent, not to mention the enforcement of laws in
>
> I just wanted to point out that this whole issue of racy images really
> doesn't have a lot to do with unsuspecting innocents. GIFs don't just
> pop up on your screen while you wander the Internet. Even if a child
> accidentally types "rn alt.binaries.pictures.erotica", she's only going
> to see something like:
>
> >From: iceblade@eskimo.com (Dark Matter)
> Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.erotica
> Subject: FullMoon.gif (Female) Computer Painting
> Message-ID: <CHuLxv.3Ax@eskimo.com>
> Date: 11 Dec 93 02:08:11 GMT
>
> Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
> Lines: 181
>
>
> Hand-drawn art of a Female in front of a huge (possibly alien) moon.
> She is in her birthday suit and looking back toward the viewer.
> Slightly abstract.
>
> Size: 381x416, 64 colors
>
> begin 600 FullMoon.gif
> M1TE&.#EA?0&@ =4: !$1$68R )F9F9@R )AE &5EF/^9F<O+F/_+F?T ,LR8
> M9O^8,_^893(R9<QE /]EF)EE,_^9R__+R\ME,O]E,_]E967_R__+941$1-W=
>
> < lots of lines deleted >
>
> M\RK988V6&, T[8%D>U3:#%9@F2TI)V$[LAWREC:-%2U..<9<WV*FN(2T+.5:
> MVTI&YE8Q4-7N:$*[F" "'_"TU!0T=#;VX@! ,0, %7<FET=&5N(&)Y
> D($=)1D-O;G9E<G1E<B R+C,N,B!O9B!-87(@-BP@,3DY,P [
>
> end
>
> It takes a bit of knowledge and motivation to uudecode the image and
> then download it to her local machine and then run a GIF viewing program.
>
> If you're worried about protecting unsuspecting innocents, the real
> problem is cases like have been mentioned here, where jerks email
> inappropriate textual material directly to children or their mailing lists.
>
> And that's going to be REAL hard to prevent.
>
> dave
>
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