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Most Oddly Gratifying Email of the Year.

Tuesday, December 31st, 2002

A late-arriving Agity award-winner. The sender of this message will remain anonymous, for obvious reasons.

Radley,

Just want to say I love your site. At times it helps to know the effects we have on people. I just want you to know you’re saving my life by providing a decent internet alternative to porn:) I was heading for the skids, looking for JPEGs, MPEGs AVIs you name it. The temptation has left me now that I have the socially acceptable alternative of clicking on the comments box. I’ve turned around. I thank you. My wife thanks you. Hell, I think even my neighbors thank you.

Keep up the great work.

Well, so long as you’re reading my site with your pants on, I’ll take this as a complement. But if clicking the comments box has the same effect on you that porn does, I really don’t think your wife will be thanking me.

Hmm. Maybe that’s my motto: “TheAgitator.com — Methadone for Porn Addicts.”

I guess I am censored on some state-owned computers in Virginia, and at certain Internet cafes along I-70 in Wheeling.

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4 Responses to “Most Oddly Gratifying Email of the Year.”

  1. #1 |  Alice Harstead |  December 31st, 2002 at 11:28 am

    Well come on, people. Do your part.

    Let’s get some comments going…

    Here’s a topic for someone smart to answer:

    (1) Radley is always an advocate for government leaving everything alone. Less is more (and perhaps none is most).

    (2) And Radley is also an advocate of privacy. He loves privacy.

    (3) There is a whole bunch of court cases that say once you put your garbage at the curb, you have no expectation of privacy. So police or the new CIA-awareness-agency-people can root through your garbage to collect things to maybe bust you.

    Well, what (besides waiting for a court to overrule the earlier decisions) do you do if you want to prevent this? Make a law that makes trash-rooting illegal? How else could you stop it? There is lots of talk about legislatures decriminalizing things and taking laws off the book to give us more freedom, but is it okay if a bunch of laws are put on the books to do the same thing? Does form matter if the substance is good?

    I am just curious, and we need some comments for this guy.

  2. #2 |  Dan™ |  December 31st, 2002 at 11:59 am

    My comment: Garbage at the curb, they can have it.
    Privacy, don’t nobody better mess with my privacies.
    My new years resoloution, to find out how our Universe got started. Right now I’m checking out virtual particles. My present guesstimate: Ve=E, betcha didn’t expect that…LOL.
    Have a good new year everyone, this is a nice place to congregate. Good folks good chatter.

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