Regarding filtering philosophy and tools, we had a lively discussion on this on the list back in September timeframe. A sample: https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/open-source-now-list/2002q3/001700.html You can use the following link to look at the whole archives, and from there you will see how the conversation went - the threading was broken a few times, so it appears to meander a bit. Lots of ideas, solutions and theories were discussed: https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/open-source-now-list/2002q3/001700.html - Karsten On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 14:48, Brandon Dorman wrote: > Hello, > > Students at my private university have created a petition to filter > pornographic and other harmful internet sites. Per school charter, if > 66% of the student body chooses to sign the petition, it will be sent > to the Board of Directors for consideration and actually happen. It is > expected to pass. > What open source tools would be useful in filtering out unwanted > content? What do you suggest we should do? To completely block all > crap out there is totally unattainable, but should we use a blacklist > company? That'd not too good, but supposedly if someone wants to > research something like abortion or stuff relating to sex all you have > to do is e-mail the company to have them unblock the site for you and it > will happen. > While I'm not in complete agreement with it, it looks like it may > happen. What should we do? How can we block bad content yet retain > freedom? Is there a way? > The merits of freedom on the internet are not the issue here. The > students brought up the issue, not the university. Thanks. > > -Brandon > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Subscription and Archive: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-source-now-list/ > - > For K12OS technical help join K12OSN: > <https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn> -- Karsten Wade : Consulting Engineer, RHCE : o: +1.831.466.9664 kwade@redhat.com : http://www.redhat.com : c: +1.831.818.9995 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- SMS Text Message Paging ::: karsten-page@karstenwade.com _______________________________________________ Subscription and Archive: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-source-now-list/ - For K12OS technical help join K12OSN: <https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn>