SALT LAKE CITY — from www.ksl.com – An anti-pornography group says its website was attacked by pornographers after the site was linked to Deseret Media Companies’ Out in the Light initiative.

Somebody went to the form e-mail on the contact page and used a program to slam the Utah Coalition against Pornography’s (UCAP)inbox with 1,000 pornographic e-mails within a 24-hour period.

UCAP chair Pamela Atkinson said the webmaster told her the e-mails were traced to San Francisco and pornography companies there, though she told KSL Newsradio Thursday it is difficult to pinpoint exactly which companies were responsible.

“We thought [the website] was just a friendly way of letting people know what is available in terms of resources,” Atkinson said.

“We had no idea that the pornographic industry in San Francisco was monitoring us here in Utah.”

Atkinson said workers did not open the e-mails because of fear of a computer virus, but subject lines included words like “sex.”

“The companies, I believe, are just feeling a little bit threatened,” Atkinson said.

The group doesn’t believe there is any real legal recourse right now, but Atkinson said UCAP may look at its options of the attacks persist.

For now, a new program is being written into the website to prevent that type of attack from happening again.