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From: well!slf@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Sharon Lynne Fisher)
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Subject: Re: MacPlaymat(e)
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Date: 28 Nov 88 15:47:39 GMT
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>       Computer sexual images of women are not new.  Pirated Playboy
>       photos are sent through computer scanners onto "bulletin
>       boards" often accessible to kids.

Heck, MacPlaymate itself isn't new.  It was at the West Coast Computer
Faire at least two years ago.  What's new is the media's discovery of it.
I understand there's a woman in Marin working on a male version.
	And regarding the "pirated Playboy photos accessible to kids," 
I know a number of people who, as kids, read their parents' Playboys because
they weren't put away or weren't inaccessible.  In other words, the BBS
doesn't make it particularly more accessible to the kid; s/he can probably
find it at home or look at it in the drugstore or something.