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To transfer files, we loaded them onto walk away from? The story broke in Its also interesting to note you’ve chosen a Magneto Optical cartridge and drove the UK where the press were all over the headline “Ben Alcott loses UK court across town. Compuserve offered Ben Alcott. We’ve reported on his case case” - surely, if anything, the story is an email service which we accessed against his former partner who he says about my child’s removal from Australia using a dial up modem. Text was the abducted their child from Australia. and the effect of that, rather than “losing” only thing we could email. Through The story is on page 8. Ben is well a court case - how about “losing a child”? the 1990’s we spent huge amounts on known in the industry. Anyway, I don’t want this whole issue to hardware and software as technology We posted this comment on our FB page succumb to the “Streisand Effect”, so I’ll improved. after someone asked about the relevance leave it there - but I’d like it to be on the Now my pocket iPhone contains about of the story: The UK press reports were one record that I would have much preferred to 1,000 times the processing power and sided so we decided to talk to Ben to get his not have this “story” published at all, and connects me direct to the world. The side of the story. He volunteered the info, in I expressed this multiple times to you, both differences and changes over 26 years the hope one day his son will get both sides in writing and over the phone. It’s a shame are simply staggering. that my very personal tragedy was seen fit of the story. But the constant thing keeping us to be used as click bait. Ben replied: In fairness and in the here is that we can tell a story. Over interests of transparency, I only at cxnetwork.com.au you can now “volunteered” the info after it became clear 26 years of deadlines download and read ALL our back you were going to run the story against This month 26 years ago I was working issues, except these missing editions. my wishes, and regardless of what was on edition one of Channels. Our Do you have any of these? If so, right and proper. I was contacted by email History page that Dan Cole has curated please contact us! on Saturday telling me that you were shows the journey, and some of the Connections #5, June/July 1993 extreme changes that have come with going to run the story; I responded by Connections #17, Sept (and Oct) 1994 email questioning why you’d ever want to time. One of them is the internet, which Connections #24, June/July 1995 give this story an airing in the first place was a distant concept in 1990. We relied (as it seems to have little to do with the on faxes. Connections #28, Nov 1995 Australian production industry). I had a mobile phone that was in two Connections #32, April 1996 He continues: We subsequently spoke over (connected) parts, sized like a handbag. Connections #73, Feb 2000 the telephone, and I once again questioned I took photos on black and white Connections #77, June 2000 (four separate times, as Julius pointed out slide film, waited two days for it to be Connections #82, Nov 2000 to me) why you’d want to run this story developed and then took the slides to be that clearly has no relation to the industry, scanned at a reprographics bureau. The but rather seems to be just salacious magazine was imposed onto film, from gossip mongering. As Julius pointed out, which printing plates were made. 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