Great Circle Associates List-Managers
(October 1996)
 

Indexed By Date: [Previous] [Next] Indexed By Thread: [Previous] [Next]

Subject: Re: Question on Pornography
From: woods @ ucar . edu (Greg Woods)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 96 11:33:25 MDT
To: marym @ Finesse . COM (Mary Morris)
Cc: list-managers-digest @ GreatCircle . COM, SPAMAD @ INTERNET . COM, SPAM-L @ eva . dc . LSOFT . COM
In-reply-to: <199610211614.JAA02380@thyme>; from "Mary Morris" at Oct 21, 96 9:14 am

I got a half dozen compalints about the kiddie porn spam. That means 
probably several dozen people here received it and ignored it.

Based on what I've seen, I doubt very much that there is any kiddie porn
really for sale here. Dealers in illegal goods cannot publically advertise
themselves and remain in business for very long, and even people who sell
illegal goods have to rely on repeat customers to stay in business. Blind
probes for new customers are far too likely to draw law enforcement.

More likely this is a prank or a scam. They rent a post office box for
a couple of days and abscond with any checks or credit card numbers they
receive. Nobody gets any tapes or pictures. Or it's a Bart Simpson style
prank (in which case it's hugely successful based on how strongly people
are reacting to it; they could hardly pick a better topic if they want
to annoy people worldwide).

--Greg


Follow-Ups:
References:
Indexed By Date Previous: Question on Pornography
From: marym@Finesse.COM (Mary Morris)
Next: Re: Question on Pornography
From: Morian <morian@pobox.com>
Indexed By Thread Previous: Question on Pornography
From: marym@Finesse.COM (Mary Morris)
Next: Re: Question on Pornography
From: Michael Andersson <anderss@u.washington.edu>

Google
 
Search Internet Search www.greatcircle.com