At 07:58 PM 5/9/96 -0700, you wrote:
For every proposed "ratings" system that involves value judgments about who should see something, I can think of examples where a quite opposite view is held.
Yes, but it is possible to have "descriptive" systems. Of course, to make them easy, things are aggregated into groups, and these groupings have a value judgement. But it is possible to have rating systems that don't tell you diddley about who sees it. _______________________ Regards, Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. -Spinoza Joseph Reagle http://farnsworth.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle@mit.edu E0 D5 B2 05 B6 12 DA 65 BE 4D E3 C1 6A 66 25 4E