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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: BBS bad publicity  Re: Jonathan Richmond vs. USENET
Message-ID: <6023@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 8 Dec 88 23:32:08 GMT
References: <33065@bbn.COM> <4355@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> <5999@hoptoad.uucp> <1942@sigma.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <5999@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) had written:
>The press already has most people who've heard of bulletin boards
>convinced that only white supremacists and child molesters use them; 

In article <1942@sigma.UUCP> bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan) has written:
>*Who* is disseminating this info?
>
>My wife has even heard the latter ("it's how they get in touch with
>other, and share ideas and methods, etc."). She won't say where she
>heard it...

"The mass media".  Meaning: network television news, the major
newsweeklies, and the wire services.  I haven't been hearing it much
lately, but about three years ago it was quite common, and as your wife
shows, such first impressions leave a lasting effect.  I fear the
Richmond action may lead to a resurgence.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"Mere opinion without supporting argument is no more than the American
 Bandstand school of literary evaluation."  -- Tom Maddox