POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Questionable Content on the Newsgroups : Re: Questionable Content on the Newsgroups Server Time
3 Aug 2024 08:15:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Questionable Content on the Newsgroups  
From: Zeger Knaepen
Date: 4 Apr 2004 21:55:06
Message: <4070bc7a@news.povray.org>
"Samuel T. Benge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:407### [at] hotmailcom...
> It seems my favorite newsgroup on the POV-Ray news server has been
> darkened by pornography. Of course I'm talking about binaries.images.
> Webster's dictionary defines pornography as, "obscene literature or
> pictures." Can you call what has been posted anything less? There is a
> time and a place for such things, but I never thought the POV-Ray
> newsgroups would be one of the places.
>
> It is because of this I won't be posting anything there anymore. I don't
> have to put up with people who insist what they are doing 'has to be
> accepted'. I am not blind to the world portrayed in those images, but I
> don't have to be reminded *every time* I visit the newsgroups. As a side
> note, my message filters don't work or else I'd use them.
>
> Am I the only one (besides Greg, Tyler, Bob, and Patrick) who feels this
> way? Please speak up, or else nothing will be done about it. I hope to
> enjoy these newsgroups again someday.

You sure aren't the only one, but I was under the impression that this could a
problem that would solve itself by ignoring it.  Maybe not, and maybe I'm not
willing to find out, hence this reply.

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