Sleepless;

Thank you for your useful and timely help and understanding. Your lack of compassion is overwhelming.

I believe this is an open forum for discussing anything. If you had read and understood my original thread, I was venting. As I said, I had no way of knowing, and still don't, what is and isn't explicit material. I stay away from anything that even remotely seems out of place.

As a moderator, I believe you accept the responsibility for your responses.
They should not be critical, harsh, blaming, or cynical. I appreciate the time and energy it takes to volunteer in any venue. I have also done volunteer work and found it most rewarding. Regardless, I will not have it inferred that I am stupid or lazy. I have been working with computers for the past 15 years and most problems I solve myself. One, because it helps me understand the inner workings of my computer and programs, and two, it gives me a great sense of accomplishment to fix things on my own.

But the issue here is pornography. It's a problem that undermines the internet as a whole and is dangerous and potentially hazardous to all. I will live the rest of my life with that image burned into my memory. This is not something I look forward to. As I said, I am the victim here. I didn't ask for this nor was there any way to know what I was downloading. This was a .jpeg file and seemed harmeless enough. Nor am I naive. I was the unknowning recipient of offensive material. Rather than threaten me to ban me from the Gnutella site, we should be working to find a solution to stop the proliferation on the internet of pornography in any form in any program. If you have an answer to that it would be most helpful.

This is my first foray into a forum type site. I have the First Amendment right to express my opinions and views and don't take kindly to the threat of having them curtailed. As a moderator you wield your power like a kid that's found his father's gun. It's dangerous and goes against every principle I can think of for an open forum.

In any case, the threat of banning me from this site is moot. I will no longer take part in this forum ever again. If I come to a roadblock with a problem with my computer htat I can't solve on my own, I will seek help elsewhere.

itsbrkn