No more Potter chat?

[Joe Bento]

It's been many years since I participated in any chat rooms.  I date
back to the early days of IRC - Internet Relay Chat where you logged
on to a public server, typically hosted by a university, and either
signed on to one of thousands of chat choices or create your own. 
There were no web based chat rooms, in fact the web was in its infancy.  

When I was active on IRC, there was certainly plenty of sleaze, but it
was easily enough avoided. 

Ah yes, IRC, Usenet, Archie, Veronica - all the early tools of the
Internet prior to Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, etc.  Most
tools used shell commands similar to a DOS prompt.

Things were simpler then, and perhaps safer.

I had to log on to peverted justice to see what it was.  Looks as
though you guys perform a valuable service. Good job!

Joe

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "bumbledore" <bumbledore at c...>
wrote:
> Im gonna say this about the HP main rooms.
> Several adults haunt those rooms, 4 of which are members of
> "perverted-justice.com".  And yes, there are perverts who do solicit
> children in those rooms, as well as the user created rooms.
> 
> Never mind the endless porn bots who try to IM you with stuff, they
are just
> the beginning.
> 
> Just go into any of the main HP rooms around 3-12 pm Est time, and watch
> what the kids say. It is no wonder pedafiles may lurk there.. half
the time
> the kids are talking cybersex of one type or another..
> 
> And if my name looks familuar from that room, its because I'm one of
the 4
> members ive mentioned above.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "constancevigilance" <constancevigilance at y...>
> To: <HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 1:16 AM
> Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] No more Potter chat?
> 
> 
> > Yahoo is saying that it has permanently taken down all user-created
> > chatrooms because they were being used to solicit sex with children.
> >
> > Does this mean that our weekly Potter chat is toast? I just now tried
> > to go into HP:1 and nothing happened.
> >
> > Constance Vigilanc
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