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Re: [KWR] "UW to probe offensive images in computer network"

Newsgroups: news.admin.policy,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
Subject:  Re: [KWR] "UW to probe offensive images in computer network"
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Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1993 21:04:43 GMT
jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>In article  morgan@engr.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) writes:
>>Does either Aggerholm or Prevost-Derbecker have email addresses?

No.

>From article , by dmcanzi@ecis.uwaterloo.ca (David Canzi):
>> There have been discussions of Prevost-Derbecker's efforts in a local
>> newsgroup.  Nobody from the Women's Centre appears to have participated.
>> It's unlikely that they wouldn't have netnews access, so I think they
>> have chosen not to participate, and they would probaby not discuss what
>> they're doing in this newsgroup either.
>
>Is the "Women's Centre" an official department of U of W?  Is it a
>"student organization" of some sort?  Is it "something else"?

The Women's Centre is a student-funded and student-operated service.

>Is  Prevost-Derbecker a University employee?  Student?  "Hanger on"?

She is a student.

Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.erotica
From: u953002@unx.ucc.okstate.edu (u953002)
Subject:  Re: BBS Porn Arrest - OKC
Message-ID: <1993Aug6.063031.22976@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1993 06:30:31 GMT
In article <22muah$iep@largo.key.amdahl.com> jwill@key.amdahl.com writes:
>Here's an interesting idea . . . does this mean they can't receive the internet
>because of some of the content? 
>
>It's hard to believe how backward some areas of the country are.
>
>							John.

We still get internet...but the news groups of interest have been
censored.  I do so love living in the bible belt.  Hell, at least we can
still telnet to other sites and ftp the uudecoded pics.  BTW, not all of
us in this part of the country are backward...it's just the idiots in
charge.
:
-- 
Carl Kadie -- I do not represent any organization; this is just me.
 = kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =