[3434] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: configuring a site to ban porno/violence www access...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no)
Sat Nov 2 19:10:52 1996
From: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
To: Henry Lim Chee Wee <cwlim@ncs.com.sg>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Nov 1996 17:12:11 +0800." <3279BEEB.15DF@ncs.com.sg>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 22:33:13 +0100
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
The least unrealistic alternative I've seen is PICS - a classifier
system that lets you ask the opinions of several "rating services"
about a site, an URL or an URL subtree.
You then have to choose:
- How much you can afford to pay the raters for their services
- How much you believe the raters
- What you do about unratable pages
- What you do when the raters' opinions surprise you
All other alternatives, including pattern-matching "fail" directives,
strike me as more unrealistic; PICS is a way to share information
about sites, so that no one site has to classify *all* the Internet.
Note: I did not say I regarded PICS as realistic....
Harald A
