Message:   Posting pics on the Cindy and Joe club

From: Joe-CindyAndJoe     Sent: November 21, 1999     Message 1 of 7

The following notes are written based on the events of the last two weeks. First I kicked a member out of the club for having misused some of the Cindy pics. Now two couples who have posted pics here have removed them because of misuse or the fear of misuse.

I really hate this situation, because what Cindy and I want more than anything else in this club are ACTIVE members who participate in the discussions and post pictures.

But the basic problem is that this is the Internet, and one can assume that whatever you post here (or elsewhere) WILL be misused sooner or later, and there is very little anyone can do about it.

Changing the security rules for the Cindy and Joe club so that membership is required to see the pics might reduce the problem a bit, but it would not cure it. People who misuse private pics for personal gain will simply apply for club membership, claiming that they are active fisters, and there is no way that I can check up on this beforehand.

For example, the person that I kicked out a couple of weeks ago for misusing the Cindy pics did send me a new membership application using a different e-mail address. I happened to recognize this as one of the e-mail addresses that he had used on the news groups, so I exchanged some e-mails with him, and finally let him back in, after he promised to not use any pics without asking for permission first. The alternative was to assume that he would just create another new e-mail address and sneak back in that way.

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