Graphic pictures sent accidentally to 700 people
By D. Craig MacCormack / News Staff Writer
Friday, February 11, 2005
FRAMINGHAM -- The man who organizes a private townwide e-mail list designed to discuss local government apologized yesterday for accidentally sending six graphic pictures to the almost 700 people on the list.
Steve Orr, a member of the Conservation Commission, said the links -- which included some graphic images such as a Middle Eastern man with a severe gunshot wound to the head -- were not intended to be distributed on that list.
"I've been doing this for almost 20 years now, so I'm allowed one mistake every 20 years," said Orr, a Precinct 1 Town Meeting member. "I don't think it's a big deal. It definitely was not intended."
Other pictures sent to residents, town officials and state legislators through Frambors, or Framingham Neighbors, showed a woman's private parts wearing a Hasidic Jew's payos hairstyle, a man standing naked on a beach with a woman's hand covering his private parts, and a mule mauling a mountain lion.
Also included in the e-mail were pictures of a topless woman and a series of muscle-bound women posing in small bikinis.
The pictures were supposed to go to another group, dubbed Man Bites Dog, a list of friends Orr has run since 1988 through the Syslang.net server. The server is not a town-owned entity and the list is maintained privately.
Frambors includes several town officials, but they were unable to open the pictures because of a blocking mechanism Orr put on the list. Still, some people on the list called town officials to complain about the pictures.
Others hadn't had time to look at the pictures before Orr blocked them.
"Thank goodness I didn't open them," said Kathie McCarthy, Precinct 10 Town Meeting chairwoman, with a chuckle.
Orr sent an apology to Frambors members shortly afterward. Recipients who click on the link receive an error message and a picture of a former Iraqi official.
"I got a few calls but nobody was really upset," said Orr.
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=90394
By D. Craig MacCormack / News Staff Writer
Friday, February 11, 2005
FRAMINGHAM -- The man who organizes a private townwide e-mail list designed to discuss local government apologized yesterday for accidentally sending six graphic pictures to the almost 700 people on the list.
Steve Orr, a member of the Conservation Commission, said the links -- which included some graphic images such as a Middle Eastern man with a severe gunshot wound to the head -- were not intended to be distributed on that list.
"I've been doing this for almost 20 years now, so I'm allowed one mistake every 20 years," said Orr, a Precinct 1 Town Meeting member. "I don't think it's a big deal. It definitely was not intended."
Other pictures sent to residents, town officials and state legislators through Frambors, or Framingham Neighbors, showed a woman's private parts wearing a Hasidic Jew's payos hairstyle, a man standing naked on a beach with a woman's hand covering his private parts, and a mule mauling a mountain lion.
Also included in the e-mail were pictures of a topless woman and a series of muscle-bound women posing in small bikinis.
The pictures were supposed to go to another group, dubbed Man Bites Dog, a list of friends Orr has run since 1988 through the Syslang.net server. The server is not a town-owned entity and the list is maintained privately.
Frambors includes several town officials, but they were unable to open the pictures because of a blocking mechanism Orr put on the list. Still, some people on the list called town officials to complain about the pictures.
Others hadn't had time to look at the pictures before Orr blocked them.
"Thank goodness I didn't open them," said Kathie McCarthy, Precinct 10 Town Meeting chairwoman, with a chuckle.
Orr sent an apology to Frambors members shortly afterward. Recipients who click on the link receive an error message and a picture of a former Iraqi official.
"I got a few calls but nobody was really upset," said Orr.
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