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...best seller, Dixie City Jam (Hyperion; 367 pages; $22.95). "The wind was hot and sere," he reports. And "the sun looked like a white flame trapped inside the dead water." And "an occasional fork of lightning, like silver threads trembling inside the clouds." It's a weather bulletin delivered by choiring angels...
...cyberspace as cold and anonymous as it is reputed to be? Members of the WELL, a San Francisco-based computer bulletin board, recently found out. On June 29, Adele Framer, who calls herself tigereye, posted a message: "Kathleen Johns((t))on kj on the WELL, who's housebound in the final stages of cancer, could use a little help with light meals once or twice a week." The following are excerpts from the exchange that followed. KJ herself is noticeably absent. She was in no shape to take part in a message board...
...Audrey Marsh of Media, Pennsylvania, thought they knew a thing or two about computing. They first met on an online bulletin board. Dan runs complex software in his job as a financial controller for a real estate company, while Audrey works as an information-systems manager. But even the Marshes have been startled by the fervor with which Audrey's two sons, Joshua, 10, and Stephen, 3, have been booting up educational software on the family's home computer. Since the day Joshua declared he had to have a popular geography program called Where in the USA Is Carmen Sandiego...
While the restructuring of the network has been planned for some time, the new server slated to handle general use--e mail, newsgroups, bulletin boards--was delivered at the beginning of this week...
...California husband and wife were found guilty in federal court of transmitting obscenities through an Internet computer bulletin board in Memphis, Tenn. "This case would never have gone to trial in California," said Richard Williams, defense attorney for Robert and Carleen Thomas, who founded the Amateur Action Bulletin Board System from Milpitas, Calif. He may be right, since the case was built on the issue of whether the sexually explicit material violated "community standards." The couple plan to appeal, and the case could make it to the Supreme Court...