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Submitted by: Steve Jender                                                   
                                                                             
              MAN BAKES CAKE WITH RECIPE FOUND ON INTERNET!                  
                                                                             
Hamilton, New Zealand. 8-Aug-1995                                            
                                                                             
A Hamilton (New Zealand) Analyst Programmer, Simon Travaglia, was            
caught last week baking a cake from a recipe he found 'On the                
Internet..'.  Police were called in when neighbours became suspicious        
about 'bakery smells' wafting into their homes from Travaglia's              
residence.  Police noted that Travaglia had in his posession                 
sophisticated cake-baking apparatus including an oven and several            
professionally crafted spatulas, which, if used properly, could have         
produced 10 or more cakes in a single day.                                   
                                                                             
  Police also found a stockpile of cakes, including several banana           
cakes, two chocolate cakes, and a self-saucing pudding.  At the time         
of his arrest, Mr Travaglia was apparently in the process of making          
several scones which were appeared destined to be stored in                  
'scone-caches' around the city.  The Police also found was a larder          
full of ingredients with an estimated street value of several dollars.       
                                                                             
                                                                             
  Experts who examined one cake surmised that it had an estimated            
yield of "8 slices, possibly 10 if you cut it up thinner".                   
                                                                             
    A well-known member of parliament has renewed his calls for              
censorship of "Usenet News"  groups which distribute such material.          
He says:  "We are faced with a situation whereby school-age-children,        
without the knowledge of their parents, can download recipes by the          
dozen, and store them in encrypted form on the computer.  Parents            
cannot be expected to Police this information, and it is time                
legislation was put into place to prevent the distribution of these          
recipes and punish those responsible for attempting it."                     
                                                                             
  When it was pointed out that several similar recipes were available        
at many public libraries, the Minister indicated that libraries were         
in a position to control access to these books both by placing them in       
prominent places under the watchful eyes of library staff and also on        
the top shelves of book stacks.  He similarly refuted claims that            
cakes such as the ones found could be made by any third year cookery         
student.                                                                     
                                                                             
"These cakes" he said "were not made by trial and error.  I have been        
assured by experts that the icing on the top of the chocolate cake in        
particular was applied by a practised hand.  If this information is          
out there, it will be found and used, and it's obvious that the              
Internet has NO conscience when it comes to the distribution of sweet        
foods.  We must act, and we must act now!"                                   
                                                                             
Meantime the Police have confirmed that despite all attempts to the          
contrary, three of the seized cakes had 'gone off'.  On this occasion,       
no-one was seriously injured, although one officer was taken to sick         
bay with 'a sore tummy'. --                                                  
                                                                             
I found this message on the EFA echo, originally posted by David             
Maddison, and thought you might appreciate it.  :-)                          
                                                                             
Steve                                                                        
                                                                             

