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To: re3 who wrote (77407)	9/15/1999 4:08:00 PM
From: McNabb Brothers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Thanks ike, but to have fun with him or her I will remind him or her now and then about the faxes that are due me and this thread! Hank

To: re3 who wrote (77407)	9/15/1999 8:27:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Disney warns kids against strangers on Internet By Sue Landau PARIS, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Disney Online, a unit of the Walt Disney Co <DIS.N>, said on Tuesday it launched pages on Disney's British, French and German websites to warn children against talking too freely to strangers on the Internet. Just as parents teach their kids not to talk to strangers in the street, parents and teachers in the cyber age need to alert children to dangers lurking in dark corners of the World Wide Web, company officials told a news conference here. From Wednesday Disney's French site will carry safe surfing pages (www.Disney.fr.surfer malin) using Disney cartoon character Doug as the messenger for a code of safe Web conduct. There is an animated cyber-version of the fable, "The Three Little Pigs," in which the pigs decide whether to give their home address to someone they chat with online, who turns out to be a wolf in sheep's clothing. In case kids haven't understood the message, the sequence ends with Mickey Mouse in person telling them never to give their family name, phone number or address on an open chat site. From next week Disney's British and German sites (www.Disney.co.uk and www.Disney.de) will carry similar material, which also includes parents' pages with information on software that blocks access to pornography and addresses of websites that combat paedophilia on the Net, the officials said. Adults posing as kids have used Net chat sites to get school addresses, meet children and sometimes kidnap and sell them into prostitution, officials of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) told reporters. "There have been cases where children have given their school's address to adults pretending to be children, with results you can imagine and that you could not imagine," said Homayra Sellier, president of the World Citizens' Movement to Protect Innocence in Danger, set up by Unesco last January. In the U.S. an association of lost children lists 1,600 who have been picked up via Internet chat groups and sometimes kidnapped and sold as prostitutes, but there are no figures currently available for France, said Choy Arnaldo, head of communication policies at Paris-based Unesco. Disney, which has run similar warnings for children on its U.S. site (www.Disney.com) for about 18 months, was already working on European versions when it heard of Unesco's initiatives to protect children from Internet abuse, said Jaki Ellenby, Disney Online Europe Marketing and Production Director. Disney went with the idea of a code of conduct for children because studies it ran in Britain, France and Germany found that parents are often not available to supervise their children online, she said.