[jwparkerjr]

Consider yourself lucky! It's not how long you've been on the Internet as much as how long you've had the same address. In addition, I was the victim of a mail bomb virus a couple of years ago where hundreds of thousands of spam emails were sent out using my address.

I can not address your experiences on the Internet, but can however say with complete confidence how often the caching system flushes or replaces information is a factor of the individual system. If you, like I have, put in a new hard drive and moved your former primary drive to a secondary drive then a lot of the cached info will be there indefinitely since it's not longer the active cache area.

I was not attempting to excuse this guy, or downplay the problem of porn on the net, but rather pointing out that its presence is not always the result of a pervert collecting it and/or dealing in it.

When a legal authority takes your system their search of the hard drive is a lot more extensive than the casual perusal you or might might do. I'm sure you are computer-savvy enough to know that some files NEVER get replaced, but simply have the system's link to the file removed. The picture, info, data, text is still there and readily recoverable by a someone intent on finding it.

Many thanks!

[AppyPappy]

Don't you think the cops know the difference between cached data and purposefully downloaded info. Let me repeat: I have never received child porn from any venue. If you want child porn, you have to hunt it down.