Book details of 'Net.Sex'

Title	Net.Sex
Author(s)	Candi Rose, Thomas Dirk, Dirk Thomas
ISBN	0672307022
Language	English
Published	December 1994
Publisher	SAMS

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Sex sells. Because sex sells, it is often used to promote either an otherwise lackluster product, or a product which has no other value. It is, therefore, somewhat astonishing to find that careful writing and a good deal of research have gone into this work. Part one deals with email and mailing lists. Descriptions are thorough, and there are often sample messages. The list includes not merely "kinky-girls" and the like, but social and political lists touching on matters of sex and sexuality. Part two covers Usenet news, with chapters on related discussion newsgroups, graphics postings, personals, sex and politics, and anonymizing servers. IRC (Internet Rely Chat) and MUDs (Multiple User Domains) are described in part three. The final section discusses looking for file archives, various available FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions lists), and companies with sex-related products. There is an appendix which talks about file archiving, compressing and encoding software and formats. The discussions of general Internet tools are brief, but quite sound. A list of mail-to-Usenet gateways is the most complete I've ever seen. (Ironically, it includes the defunct decwrl site, but not the ubiquitous utexas mailer.) I'm surprised at a "search strategy" which uses arcane local commands, but doesn't take advantage of archie. One point in regard to scanning files should be made--at least one prosecution for scanning and making available copyright material from magazines such as Playboy has been successfully completed, and more are in the works. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995
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