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"Kenneth R. Moore" <[log in to unmask]>
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Does anybody here realize whats happened in NY ?????


At 10:24 PM 9/14/01 -0400, kukla wrote:
>Here is the complete third paragraph, with apologies once again for
>whatever seems to have excised it from this afternoon's and this evening's
>early posts. -jk
>......
>However, there is slightly more to the story. Those errors are not mine,
>but the work of someone else. I am learning about the web fast, moving
>from no knowledge at the beginning of the year to a sad experience of its
>dangers today. I had no idea that someone could take what is on your web
>site, alter it, and put it back. That is what someone did to my site. I do
>not know when this happened, for I never looked at my material after I put
>it on the web -- a terrible mistake I have learned. When I looked closely
>this past weekend, I discovered that my North Carolina materials were not
>on the site, large portions of my essay on using probate materials were
>missing, as were sections of my bibliographies, and words had been added
>to my probate records. Most outrageously, and this would be funny in other
>circumstances, someone had gone through the book section of the probate
>material and inserted _Cleland's Memoirs_ in several of the book listings.
>It took me a while to catch on to that one, and I only did so because it
>appeared several times. Al Young kindly informed me that _Cleland's
>Memoirs_is the famous early work of pornography, Fanny Hill, published in
>the 1760s as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure! Some rather sophisticated
>hacker made these religious Vermont, Maine, and Ohio settlers into
>devotees of porn.
>.......
>
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