Robert,

RW>->   Reminds me of the cartoon where the sheriff's office found a pair of
RW>"dirty
RW>-> underwear" from a thief on the run. The bloodhound dogs
rebelled, with th
RW>-> caption "Dude!! You find him!! We're bloodhounds, not butt
hounds!!" :P

RW>LOL!  God, thank you!  I needed a laugh today! :)

  Glad to help. There's too little to laugh at in the world nowadays.

  I've got a bulletin on the BBS, entitled "So, You Want To Be A
Sysop??". It is several bulletins in one, from several individuals,
with segments like:

1) Definition Of A Twit - courtesy of Grant Bierman 2) You Want To Be A
Sysop?? - courtesy of Tom Ezell 3) The Thankless Job - courtesy of Kris
Lewis 4) Caring For Pet Sysops - courtesy of Fred Hunt, modified by Daryl
Stout 5) The Sysop of a BBS - a poem by Daryl Stout

  While some parts of the first 4 can be amusing, sadly a lot of that is
true. Even though most of the dial-up BBS's have been replaced by telnet
and web BBS's, the problem of twits, hackets, etc. didn't go away.

  It reminds me of a C)omment to Sysop once that went something like
"Why can't I have automatic access to the adult file areas?? I need it
for a school sex education project". The response from the Sysop:
"Nice try, but no dice". ;)

  Indeed, when I was originally dial-up only, one caller paged me for chat,
and asked where all the adult files were. When I replied "on the
internet", his response was "CLICK" -- NO CARRIER.

  Admittedly, I do have a file board called "The Bizarre
Bazaar"...with images of such, and it's rated PG-13 in content as a
result. The movie "Kramer Versus Kramer" with Dustin Hoffman and
Meryl Streep in 1980 was rated "PG" for a few expletives, and a
comic nude scene...but all you saw was the nude woman from the back side.

  But, the closest thing you'll get to nudity on the BBS is shots from
"the backside" (the buttocks) in some images (all humans are
technically "the same from the back side"). There are NO full
frontal nudity shots of genitalia, bestiality, pornography, etc.

  The Motion Picture Association Of America would give a picture an
"R" rating for full frontal nudity (including genitalia) or use
of the "F word" for sexual intercourse. The former "X"
rating is now "NC-17", because they felt that "X" was
too closely associated with pornography. And, an "X" rating
originally denoted the picture dealt with "hard core sex". Most
all of the "soft core porn" pictures are rated "R"; the
difference between "soft core" and "hard core" was that
"soft core was simulated"...yet it sure is difficult to tell the
difference.

  Nudity can be defined as "any nakedness" (reference
Michelangelo's "King David" sculpture, or the picture of "a
naked baby on a bareskin rug, showing its buttocks).

  Pornography is from the Greek word "porneia"...which is defined
as "all sexual intercourse outside the marriage relationship between a
man and a woman". Indeed, the "adult entertainment industry"
is a multi-billion, if not multi-trillion dollar industry.

Daryl
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