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[news.admin.net-abuse.misc trimmed, aus.censorship, wa.general added]

David Bromage wrote:

> Not quite email or news, but I got unsolicited porno ads when on IRC, and
> I wasn't even on a channel at the time.

> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 20:39:37 +0800
> To: dbromage@metz.une.edu.au
> From: Paul McCutcheon <paul@omen.net.au>
> Subject: Re: Unsolicited advertising

> I checked the "~apollo" account and (scratching the "/C10" off the end) the
> site is _very_ obvious in it's violation of the Western Australian
> Censorship Act 1996.

> [From Section 99.]
> "restricted material" means an article that a reasonable adult, by reason
> of the nature of the article, or the nature or extent of references in the
> article, to matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty,
> violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena, would regard as unsuitable
> for a minor to see, read or hear.

> [From Section 102.]
> 2.A person must not use a computer service to make restricted material
> available to a minor.
>           Penalty:
>              a.in the case of an individual, $5 000 or imprisonment for 6
>                months;
>              b.in any other case, $25 000

> Needless to say, this turkey just signed the death warrant to his account.
> Our System Admin will clean the site out first time at work when he returns
> fresh from the weekend.

> Sorry he can't do it right now, and as much as I'd like to see it killed,
> but he's not here at the moment and he spits his dummy if anyone screws
> with root access.

> As a final word, please forward complaints to either abuse or postmaster;
> root  is a dead account for email.

> You may count this as a "kill". :)

> Paul McCutcheon
> Postmaster
> Omen Internet

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I don't quite understand the smilie, Paul.

Presumably, you will have to lose the other Omen customers who 
also have adult content on their web pages.

By the way, what does FSCK stand for?

...Dave

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