Re: Matt Deatherage

[dlyons@netcom.com (David A. Lyons)]

In article <3ousfo$ja2@cheyenne.iac.net> Mark Fisher writes:
>[...] Matt, 
>eternal friend of the A2 developer, was convicted of a sexual offense that 
>involved a minor and communication over a BBS. I rather doubt that he will be 
>getting an E-Mail address any time soon.

That sums it up pretty well.  (Please note that said minor was actively
searching for the sort of experience that ultimately occured.  This is,
of course, no excuse--but without that piece of info, it's easy to read
"sexual offense" as "attack", and that's not what happened.)

I currently expect he'll be out in under a year.


>It's a pity that we hold computer professionals to a higher sexual standard 
>than priests and teachers. We miss you, Matt.

Not sure exactly what you're getting at; priests and teachers spend time in
jail when they break the law, too.  I do, however, think that media coverage
was rather one-sided, and that coverage and even sentencing would have been
different had the Information Superhighway not been a hot new topic.

We've covered all this last year.  Email me if you have questions.  I can
forward messages to Matt for you, if you want (include a US Mail address
and he'll probably write back when he gets a chance).

-- 
Dave Lyons
Mr Tangent