[48314] in Cypherpunks
Re: This post is rated LTC for `Low Technical Content'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Sat Jan 27 22:01:17 1996
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 18:59:29 -0800
To: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Cc: JMKELSEY@delphi.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
At 6:36 PM 1/27/96 -0800, Rich Graves wrote:
>On Sat, 27 Jan 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
>
>> At 7:55 PM 1/27/96 -0500, JMKELSEY@delphi.com wrote:
>> >The best solution has always seemed to me to be one of these three:
>> >
>> >a. Tags appended to notes/posts, from various reviewers, digitally
>> >signed and otherwise coded to allow intelligent filtering, or
>> >
>> >b. Electronic distributions of reviewers' evaluations tagged to
>> >notes in some simple way. (I.e. give each note or post a unique ID
>> >which appears in the message.) Then, a smart newsreader/mail
>> >program sorts the notes accordingly, or
>> >
>> >c. The reviewer reads the group/list, and rates posts according to
>> >some useful criteria. He then resends it out to his users, filtered
>> >as desired. (CP-LITE seems like a very early version of this.)
>>
>> d. The "V-Chip" device makes a network query to the selected rating service
>> to ask for a rating. What happen when the rating service is unreachable is
>> just one of the many parameters that the parent needs to set. (If designed
>> right, no parent could use it, but its availability would still stop the
>> adult censorship croud in congress.)
>
>This just gets ridiculous. It adds a lot of overhead without necessarily
>giving you good information.
... <lots of good rant deleted>
Rich - Remember that this is NOT being designed for usability, only to stop
a bad movement in congress. The reason I proposed solution (d) is that it
adds no overhead to people who don't use it. (I propose using the
Message-ID: header as a lookup ID for items received by email. I suspect
it has spoofing problems, but perhaps congress won't notice.)
Perhaps we should re-visit the need for usability if anyone really wants to
use such a system themselves. As a parent, I always wanted my children to
explore freely and discuss anything they found that bothered them.
Bill
