Just in case I'm not the only one who didn't know who gave ABC the emails

MissMarple

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Mon Oct-02-06 05:35 PM
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Just in case I'm not the only one who didn't know who gave ABC the emails

The "naughty" emails. I found this at www.tpmmuckraker.com.

"I said we're not making any deals," Ross recalls. He says the Internet made the story possible, because on Thursday he posted a story on his ABC Web page, the Blotter, after obtaining one milder e-mail that Foley had sent a 16-year-old page, asking for a picture. Within two hours, former pages had e-mailed Ross and provided the salacious messages. The only question then, says Ross, was "whether this could be authenticated."

They were trying to get Ross not to publish.

Kids and their technology. Foley was clueless. They were all blindsided.

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roseBudd

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Mon Oct-02-06 05:45 PM
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1. LOL they saved their chat logs, the default is off, Foley was not a power

user.

He probably thought IMs were ethereal.

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MissMarple

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Mon Oct-02-06 06:03 PM
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2. Electrical impulses disappearing into the internets....

Not a problem. And didn't he think the kids would talk? Girls usually are thought to talk, gossip, but guys do it as much, if not more. It used to be hilarious driving my son and his friends around before they got their licenses. I could even discretely ask them questions about what they were talking about, and they would answer just like one of them had asked the question.

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