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   Even though most of the dial-up BBS's have been replaced by telnet and web   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