Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!xanth!hoptoad!tim 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 Lines: 20 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