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Re: Content filtering
From: "Ryan Russell" <ryanr () sybase com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 23:18:48 -0700
No, it would be terribly useful. There are a large number of institutions who could write a one-line access list to block the port number in question, but won't neccessarily install an HTTP to parse and filter HTML. I've got a high school I help out with networking stuff, and they would LOVE to be able to block one port and eliminate all the porn. Of course, all the porn sites are as likely to all go out and change what port they run on as they are to label their content. Ryan ---------------------------------- Ahem. There is already a standard for marking pages as having "objectionable content" (see the W3C web site for details), and if browser makers and others wanted to use it, they could. Wasting another port on this seems less than useful in that light.
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- Content filtering Garbrick, Randy (Sep 24)
- Re: Content filtering Alec Muffett - SunLabs (Sep 24)
- Re: Content filtering sedwards (Sep 24)
- Re: Content filtering Perry E. Metzger (Sep 25)
- Re: Content filtering Bennett Todd (Sep 25)
- Re: Content filtering Steve George (Sep 25)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Content filtering Ryan Russell (Sep 26)