Re: Sex, lies & dirty talk in Toronto

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From: Ken Landa
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 18:11

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In article <3hknr1$7t7@ionews.io.org>, Byron Bodo <bodo@io.org> wrote:

> The Globe & Mail, Toronto's self styled national newspaper, boldly 
> entered the hotly contested media moron sweepstakes with reporter 
> Geoffrey Rowan's "Sex, lies & commercial on-line services" piece 
> subtitled "Dirty Talk / Lascivious chat is at the top of the list 
> for inhabitants of electronic communities that people tap into 
> through their computers".  
> 
> "... as much as 80 per cent of what they use the services for is 
> prurient in nature."
>  
> Rowan offers no hard facts, directly attributed quotes, nor evidence
> of any sort in support of his claims.


I absolutely agree!! This besmirching of our collective cyber-reputation
has got to stop! 
I don't spend more than 30% of my time on activities of a "prurient nature"! :)

Ken Landa
bh3a@musicb.mcgill.ca

                             -="Would you like fries with that?"=-

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From: bh3a@musicb.mcgill.ca (Ken Landa)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.media-coverage,can.general,tor.general,can.infohighway
Subject: Re: Sex, lies & dirty talk in Toronto
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 13:11:02 -0500
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