Re: Burger King Mentality

[Peter Milbury <pmilbury@ERICIR.SYR.EDU>]

Generally, I agree that it is now difficult to find porn accidentally on
the Internet. However, I have experienced a few surprises.

I was once giving an Internet workshop for P.E. student teachers, and
searched the term "sport" in Veronica's database of Gopherspace, and it
yielded a large number of hits from a gay BBS in England, each of which
contained explicit descriptions of locker room sex.

I was a bit surprised that these popped up at the top of the list. A
month or so later I was discussing this situation with a P.E. teacher,
and tried the search again to demonstrate, and it did not appear. This
occurred a couple of years ago.

Another time I received a very juicy e-mail story of a woman's two sexual
experiences with different men while at a weekend conference. As it
happens, we were both members of an Internet discussion group (not
LM_NET). The story found its way into my e-mailbox because the sender had
accidentally mis-used the reply feature of her e-mail system, sending the
message to the entire list, rather than to the original person who posted
a message, and to whom she had intended to reply!

At another workshop, for our staff, our principal's secretary did a search
of the Web using "O.J. Simpson" as key words, and one of the links
returned was a topless photo of Nicole. Not porn, but in the context,
rather shocking! And under the current law, possibly "indecent".

 Peter Milbury, Librarian                           pmilbury@ericir.syr.edu

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