From: Zach Babayco <zachb@netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 05:03:11 +0800
To: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Subject: Re: Cybergangs?
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On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:

> 
> >CYBERGANGS
> >The head of the gang task force for the Arizona Department of Public Safety
> >reports that a Web site established in Detroit offers a how-to guide for
> >gangster wannabes and is urging gang members everywhere to unite under its
> >umbrella to form the first cyberspace gang.  The official says:  "Now it's
> >in your home, your living room, your den... Unfortunately, these guys can
> >talk about anything they want and there's nothing law enforcement can do
> >about it."  (Atlanta Journal-Constitution 8 Aug 96 F3)
> 
> 	Umm... yes, it's called free speech. While organizational ability
> might be a matter for concern, somehow I doubt that having them on the net
> will do any real damage... being on a computer that mine is connected to hardly
> puts them "in [my] home," even if my computer at home were connected to a phone
> line. Bloody law enforcement paranoids...
> 	-Allen
> 

Besides, its not at all threatening.  Actually, more on the stupid side.  
All it is right now is a several pages of trash-talk and a few links.  
Hardly a threat to life as we know it.  The URL, for anyone whos 
interested, is http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/3149 (across town 
from my page, thankfully :)


Zach Babayco

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