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"net.sex:  The Complete Guide to the Adult Side of the Internet", Candi
Rose/Dirk Thomas, 1995, 0-672-30702-2, U$19.99/C$26.99/UK#15.50
%A   Candi Rose and Dirk Thomas (oh, really?) dirkncandi@aol.com
%C   201 W. 103rd Street, Indianapolis, IN   46290
%D   1995
%G   0-672-30702-2
%I   SAMS Publishing
%O   U$19.99/C$26.99/UK#15.50 800-858-7674 75677.720@compuserve.com
%O   317-581-3743 75141.2102@compuserve.com 75141.2104@compuserve.com
%P   243
%T   "net.sex:  The Complete Guide to the Adult Side of the Internet"
 
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   BKNETSEX.RVW   950412

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