Subj : NO ONE CAN CONNECT
To   : Robert Wolfe
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Sun Feb 14 2016 02:46 pm


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Even though most of the dial-up BBS's have been replaced by telnet and web 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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