"Joe AutoDrill" wrote in message
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In the forums that showcase death photos, there have been times when
people post photos evidence photos before they are to be used in trials...
Where the leaks come from, nobody knows, but a piece of info released like
that can (but may never have been) used to argue that information was not
handled properly and cause a mistrial, etc...

Ok - but those would more likely be published to web sites than to usenet
groups.


People have threatened each other with harm or worse - which is a crime...

Guess we should kill the spoken word and all forms of written communication
then.


Some in the motorcycling or street racing groups have posted about when /
where a little ralleye will take place in order to either facilitate
street racing or other questionable activities...



Yeah, but I don't think that's really a big concern for law enforcement. At
least I hope that's not one of their bigger concerns...


On the far edge of society and in the hardcore porn newsgroups, the locals
and feds very often report anonymous and sometimes even non-anonymous
posters putting up porn of kids, etc. Google "NAMBLA" and see what kind
of oxygen thieves are living on our planet.

Yeah - but again, the web is full of a lot more of this than usenet is. A
better approach is to tackle the source of the problem.



I personally won't miss many of the forums that disappear - even if it is
censorship. But I also understand the push by the providers to "clean up"
their service regardless of whether I agree with it or not. Now that the
crackdown has started, many of the "legitimate" newsgroup forums are
suffering badly. the only good thing may be if the spammers are also sent
off to never-neverland... Maybe there will be 2 of us here a year from
now discussing the on-topic stuff.


I won't necessarily miss the stuff that disappears either, but I do find
myself riling up at the supposed reasons for these things.

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-Mike-