In article , Donna Metler says...


"Banty" wrote in message
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In article , Donna Metler
says...
::snip::

I would call guidance, just in case. It can't hurt anything-if the
student
doesn't exist, the school would have a better chance of getting the ISP
to
pull the site, and if she does, even if she's making 90% of it up, she'd
probably benefit from some help.




Yeah - good idea, then the ISP will quick take it down and no one will
find our
where the girl lives, what her sexual interests are, etc. etc. to make
sure she
doesn't get harmed!

...wait a minute....now does that seem to what motivated the OP? Is his
post
consistent with such a concern??

C'mon, think Donna.

Unfortunately, I've been moderating a teen board for over a year, and I know
just how extreme some of the things these kids post, especially in live
journals/blogs. There have been a few cases where if I had the ability to
call a school counselor, I would have done so, without even blinking because
of things said online. Unfortunately, one side effect of protecting IDs so
teens are safe online is that the information isn't available even to site
administrators. I've also seen teens post some really dangerous identifying
information online, even on our board where we automatically delete posts
with identifying information as soon as we catch it.

So the combination didn't strike me as being immediately farfetched at all,
unfortunately.

One more time with emphasis:

It's not the BLOG which I'm saying is far-fetched, it's that there would be a
authentic USENET post about it which SPECIFICALLY REPEATS IN THE USENET POST all
the personal and tillitating details, down to phone numbers.

The OP is clearly not interested in helping or protecting this girl. He/she
wants to PROPAGATE the information and ADVERTISE, as in BRING ATTENTION TO the
website.

Get it now?

In other words, responding with obvious "call her counsellor", repeating all
that wunnerful information the OP clearly wanted to PROPOGATE, isn't a smart
thing to do. So, Donna, since you get posts deleted from your teen boards, will
you at least get that removed from Google?

Think - what would a REAL concerned poster do? Go out of his way to state the
town the girl lives in and what kind of setting it is in? Heck no. (I mean
really, didn't that strike you as a bit odd??!?) Put the URL out there again?
Heck no. Give out her HIGH SCHOOL PHONE NUMBER?? Heck NO!! He/she would
describe the website, perhaps STATE (but not repeat the exact info) that info is
available in that website, then ask what to do. Although what to do is fairly
obvious.

This teen could well be the OP's girlfriend, and he's getting his jollies this
way.

Banty (more caps than I've pounded out in a long time, but really, this is a
'head explode')