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...health insurance guarantees in the Kennedy-Kassebaum bill, and liked Dole best when he called the U.S. "the greatest country on the face of the earth." A woman on the street, interviewed by CNN, said Dole "just seemed snippy last night." Someone writing in to the WELL, an online bulletin-board service, said Dole's worst moments were at the end: "He sought to talk to young people, and failed to connect." David Letterman listed the Top 10 Ways to Make the Next Presidential Debate More Exciting. No. 1 was "When things get boring, turn loose the gators...
Judging from the thousands of messages that have been plastered across Usenet, the vast bulletin-board system of the Internet, something more than silliness is going on here. "He wasn't your average murderer," writes a typical fan on alt.fan.unabomber. (For Unabomber info on the Web, go to: http://pathfinder.com/ pathfinder/features/unabomber/index.html). In fact, spiritual strands link antigovernment cyberpunks and the outlaw...
They may have to wait a while. In some of those countries, the Internet's infrastructure hasn't progressed much beyond the local computer bulletin-board stage. In others, particularly in Europe, strict rules limit what kind of data can be gathered about private citizens in such polling. Donna Hoffman, a Vanderbilt management professor who helped design the Nielsen survey, still ducks questions about how many people around the world use the Internet. "A lot," she answers with a laugh. "It's very big." That, for now, may have...
...issue of computer pornography has been blown way out of proportion. I am 17, so your report encompasses my age group. For kids to get this material, they must know where to look. And for every bulletin-board service that carries pornography, there are at least 10 that do not, just as with magazines or movies. My friends and I have access to such material, and we don't look at it. The U.S. government has no right to censor the Internet or computer bulletin boards. ALAN TOMS Miami Via America Online...
...MONEYMAKER. The great majority (71%) of the sexual images on the newsgroups surveyed originate from adult-oriented computer bulletin-board systems (BBS) whose operators are trying to lure customers to their private collections of X-rated material. There are thousands of these BBS services, which charge fees (typically $10 to $30 a month) and take credit cards; the five largest have annual revenues in excess of $1 million...