ricks@tekcad.UUCP (10/17/83)
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tekcad!paulp Oct 16 20:48:00 1983
I would have no patience reading through a list of N * 100 names and
descriptions. Some sort of screening mechanism is needed. Are you
going to look through several thousand entries if you noticed some kid
hanging around the drug store? Finding a body involves the police
anyway and they have a great deal more in the way of identification
resources.
Local police act as a reasonable screening service. If missing children's
names were entered into one of the computer services they use for looking
up records on people, a great many could be located their first time thru
a cop shop.
Paul Pomes
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Phone: 503-627-2341bees@drux3.UUCP (Ray Davis) (10/19/83)
It seems that for this kind of thing to be effective, photos are
needed. Maybe someday -- when ASCII terminals are worthless, and
high res. graphics are the standard -- this will work.
Think of the possibilities for USENET then!
Ray Davis AT&T Information Systems Laboratories Denver
{ihnp4|hogpc}!druxy!bees (303)538-3991eric@aplvax.UUCP (10/21/83)
Usenet with high-resolution graphics? Imagine how that will change net.rec.nude! :-) -- eric ...!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!eric
preece@uicsl.UUCP (10/26/83)
#R:abnjh:-26500:uicsl:7500031:000:995 uicsl!preece Oct 19 12:03:00 1983 The idea of using the net to help recover missing kids is a noble one, but I can't see it working in practice. The key step in the recoveries triggered by the TV show last week was the presentation of PICTURES of the kids. Unless you've got a major new technology for us, we can't do that. I can't see myself wading through hundreds of text descriptions of kids on the possibility that one might suggest some peculiarity of a kid I know. The problem is that, since a large percentage of the cases are parental abductions, there's nothing even remotely suspicious about the resulting family. Should I suspect every single parent of having a kid for which he/she is not the sanctioned custodian? I guess lists of names of parent abductors might be reasonable; I don't suppose most of them change their names. But I don't really think that the circle of acquaintance of the whole net readership is large enough to cover much of the total population. scott preece pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!preece