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There are several satiric sites spoofing candidates. These showed up a =
couple months ago and they do look official when you first see them. =
Then you notice that that is the Dole bannana logo in front of Bob Dole. =
I would assume that these are the sites referred to. The links =
representing candidates' positions are meant to be funny and are =
generally tasteless.=20

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From:   Carol Simpson[SMTP:csimpson@TENET.EDU]
Sent:   Tuesday, February 13, 1996 10:01 PM
To:     Multiple recipients of list LM_NET
Subject:        Re: Burger King again

I'd be interested to know which candidate had pornographic links on =
their
pages!  I'd be willing to bet that they would like to know that, too.

On 13 Feb 1996, B. Portigue wrote:

> I recently was searching the web for the homepages of candidates =
running for
> president.  Several of the pages were very slick looking, including =
run
> downs of candidates' views, photos, graphics, etc.  These  pages also
> featured hypertext links to pornographic sites that would pop up
> unexpectedly when you clicked on certain seemingly "innocent" words.  =
Glad I
> wasn't leading a social studies class through this search at the time! =
 Of
> course, I would have checked out the site before hand, but it's =
doubtful
> that I would have checked EVERY hypertext link!
> Barbara Portigue
>
>


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