[eli@xnet.com: Child XXX (fwd)]

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Robert J. Brown wrote:
> 
> Please pay enough attention to this to realize the problem we are
> facing.  I received a solicitation via email to one of my "other"
> ISP's recently, but I didn't read it until tonight.  I only use this
> provider as a connection to the iternet, but I refuse to have any
> internet account without shell access, since if my site goes down I
> need a way to reach the, etc.
> 
> This is really GROSS!  Following the solicitation is a news article
> that says I was not the only one to get this dirt.  Did any of you
> other HF-ers out there get a copy in your own email?

> Lee Altschuler, chief of the U.S. attorney's office in San Jose, said
> advertising child pornography for sale in interstate commerce is a
> felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

It's a shame that anyone should be subjected to this kind of 
solicitation, but it's a fact in our world. The unfortunate thing about 
all of this is if the sender actually lives outside of the USA, he cannot 
be punished by US law...

Some foriegn countries do not have laws against child pornography, and 
therefore do not govern what their citizens place on the internet. Being 
a world-wide system, anyone in any city in the world that owns (or has 
access to) a computer with a modem can download and "enjoy" this child 
pornography.

There is nothing we can do except PRAY!