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>>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry Welch <tlwitness@juno.com> writes:

    Jerry> On Tue, 08 Sep 1998 22:46:53 -0700 Dave
    Jerry> <suprdave@lightspeed.net> writes:
    >> Mike (responding to Bro. Welch):
    >>> I have *NEVER* seen *any* "filth" on the Internet, not once.
    >>> On
    >> the contrary, I have seen all kinds of "filth" on TV and I
    >> don't even own >one, that is just the peripheral filth you see
    >> at department stores and >an occasional restaurant.  In a nut
    >> shell, that is my take on the >difference between TV and the
    >> Internet.  M.R.
    >> 
    >> Dave responds: Though Mike Reed is not looking for or has seen
    >> any "filth" on the internet, would someone verify to Mike that
    >> this has been a problem with children surfing the net and
    >> discovering pornography and other ungodly material...

I was very suprised a couple of years ago when I was looking for
documentation on some arcane Linux thing by using a search engine.
When I clicked on one of the hits, a naked woman appeared on my
screen.  Someone had deliberately baited that screen, because under
the photograph, sure enough, there was the documentation I was looking 
for.  It was no doubt somebody's idea of a joke.  I was not amused, as 
I was at a client's office, using his machine.  If the client had
happened to look at that moment, my reputation as both a consultant
and a minister could have been severly damaged.  Thank God I was the
only one around.  I promptly scrolled the picture off the screen and
read the documentation I had been searching for.

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