Re: Washington Post -- "Block but Verify"

On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Declan McCullagh wrote:

[An editorial in today's Washington Post, about blocking software and the CyberWire Dispatch that Brock and I sent out earlier this month. --Declan]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1996-07/15/006L-071596-idx.html

Editorial: "BLOCK, BUT VERIFY"

Monday, July 15 1996; Page A18 The Washington Post

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read. One pitfall, though, as Messrs. McCullough and Meeks observe, is the commercially inspired reluctance of many of these producers of software to specify exactly what they are blocking. Though

A user-selectable menu would be, umm, interesting ... just how could one describe, in terms offensive to absolutely no one, what one's product is offering to block? -r.w.