bryden@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Christopher F. Bryden) (05/19/89)
In article barry@eos.UUCP (Kenn Barry) writes: }In article jwi@lzfme.att.com (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) writes: }>In article bdiscoe@tybalt.caltech.edu (Ben W. Discoe) writes: }>The objection is not to pornography, it's to posting this on }>comp.graphics. If you want pornography, post to talk.bizzare. Um, I think that the people in talk.bizzare just got insulted. But, that's alright they're used to it. } First off, talk.bizarre has nothing to do with porn. You want }porn, go to alt.sex. Second, the original posting was a simple request Um, I think the people who post to alt.sex just got insulted. Actually, they were probably amazed at Jim (*cough*) Winer's ability to insult his own intelligence. Definitions of what is pornographic vary ; apparently the world's definitions revolve around Jim. OK, call for a new news group comp.graphics.questionable.requests }for information, "where can I find X-rated GIFs on the wire?" That's }neither more nor less appropriate to this newsgroup than "where can I }find Star Trek pics to download". What's inappropriate here are moral }pronouncements; there are other newsgroups for that. Oh, say like, misc.wanted? The star trek request would have meet less resistance... infact, people might have been obliged to respond to that request. Some people feel that, in a very stylized way, star trek is pornographic. ...ying yang black is white and white is back... let's strike a deal : I won't shove my moral definitions down your throat and in return, you won't shove your moral definitions down mine. }>> pornography offends you, THIS newsgroup isn't the place to discuss it! } There are also other newsgroup for cheap shots. Oh, you mean like alt.flame! Don't get the idea that this is a cheap shot just because I'm posting this there. This converstion really has no relivance to comp.graphics, and one of the best ways to get an unwanted topic out of a news group is to cross post. Chris -- arpa : bryden@vax1.acs.udel.edu | In the land of the blind, bitnet: akr05167 at ACSVM | the one eyed man is king. plato : bryden/itpt/udel ----------------- I could turn you inside out uucp : ...{unidot,uunet}!cfg!udel!udccvax1!bryden | ...what I choose not to do.
richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (05/19/89)
In article <1351@lzfme.att.com> jwi@lzfme.att.com (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) writes: >In article <10707@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, bdiscoe@tybalt.caltech.edu (Ben W. Discoe) writes: > >> >>>Does anyone know of any sources for X-rated GIF files? > >> >> Get lost. > >> >Seconded. > >> What is this, a convention of puritans? The inquisition? There are two sides >> to pornography, and if it happens to offend you, nobody says you have to see >> it! I'm quite shocked to see a system as <usually> open-minded as the net >> cluttered with COMPLETELY useless and inappropriate insults. > >The objection is not to pornography, it's to posting this on >comp.graphics. If you want pornography, post to talk.bizzare. > >***** Please note ***** This is not cross posted to >talk.bizarre. They (the bizzarites) tend to cross post a lot and we >don't need it. I understand there are some pictures of Jim Winer doing some very curious things with common household appliances that could best be described as ``X-rated'' on the ftp host at Old Dominion University in Norfolk. -- ``So little time, so many watches'' richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV
markk@sigma.UUCP (Mark Kimmerly) (05/20/89)
In article <15929@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >In article <1351@lzfme.att.com> (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) writes: >> >>The objection is not to pornography, it's to posting this on >>comp.graphics. If you want pornography, post to talk.bizzare. >> >>***** Please note ***** This is not cross posted to >>talk.bizarre. They (the bizzarites) tend to cross post a lot and we >>don't need it. > >I understand there are some pictures of Jim Winer doing some very >curious things with common household appliances that could best be >described as ``X-rated'' on the ftp host at Old Dominion University >in Norfolk. Really? Are there any involving kitchen utensils? How about plumbing tools? I would be very interested in them if they involved plumbing tools. Especially pipe wrenches. I was told that if you want plumbing tools, you should post to comp.graphics. I was also told that they (the graphites) tend to pass their spare time jamming toilets with paper towels so they'll overflow. -- Markk (professional smart-ass)
tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) (05/21/89)
In article <15929@gryphon.COM>, richard@gryphon (Richard Sexton) writes: >I understand there are some pictures of Jim Winer doing some very >curious things with common household appliances that could best be >described as ``X-rated'' on the ftp host at Old Dominion University >in Norfolk. While most people probably already disregard many of Richard's postings as folly, I want to point out that there are, to the best of my knowledge, no ``X-rated'' (whatever that is) pictures available via anonymous ftp from any Computer Science machine at ODU. I don't think there are even any GIF files available unless they appeared in one of the sources groups archived here. ...tad