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An eleven-year-old neighbour asked me some questions about electronics, and
I pointed him at aus.electronics, as one does.
A couple of days later his mother fell on me like a ton of bricks, and it is
easy to see why. He had tuned in to the newsgroup in the middle of one of
those childish, foul-mouthed, repetetive exchanges between the resident
psychopaths. I had forgotten how those posters have made the newsgroup all
but uninhabitable by decent people because they have long been filtered on
my machine and sent to an electronic limbo before I ever see any posts. What
I saw on my neighbour's machine was pretty awful. He and his mother are now
both a little wary of any kind of newsgroup, and, I fear, a little wary of
me.
I pointed him at aus.electronics, as one does.
A couple of days later his mother fell on me like a ton of bricks, and it is
easy to see why. He had tuned in to the newsgroup in the middle of one of
those childish, foul-mouthed, repetetive exchanges between the resident
psychopaths. I had forgotten how those posters have made the newsgroup all
but uninhabitable by decent people because they have long been filtered on
my machine and sent to an electronic limbo before I ever see any posts. What
I saw on my neighbour's machine was pretty awful. He and his mother are now
both a little wary of any kind of newsgroup, and, I fear, a little wary of
me.