An anonymous person wrote, in reference to CyberSitter type 'blocking' software: "These companies are attempting to provide the services desired by their customers... They give concerned parents a sense of safety..." While I do not disagree that these companies should be able to market their products, I wholeheartedly disagree with the fact that often their customers (the adults who bought the software or subscribed to he 'service') are not allowed to have a list of what is actually blocked, and decide for themselves if they want their kids to have access to any of these sites. It would be beating a dead horse to describe, here, the potential value of some of the information that is blocked by these packages; one only has to take a look at any of the published news reports (or actually use one's sense of reason) to see that there are many web sites that contain some of the words that are automatically bloked by these 'services' that are absolutely not...smut <for lack of a better term>, hate speech, or illegal/illicitly oriented. On another, perhaps more severe (to you, Anonymous poster,) angle, they DO NOT, NOR CAN THEY provide a genuine saftey zone for the children who are to be 'protected.' They are providing a false sense of security to parents who, for one reason or another, feel that they are not able to provide their children with direction on what to, and what not to, view on the internet as well as what to do if the instance arises that something that is deemed taboo happens to pop up on their monitor when they click on the 'Chutes and Ladders' web site <for example, I don't know if there is one...trying to be safe and guess that there is not>. I am assuming that there is no latent support for the use of these packages in public libraries, so I won't go into that issue. In general, these programs are flat out crap. They purport to do something that is impossible to accomplish and they often refuse to even inform their customers what they actually ARE doing. Scott R. Brower http://www.infowar.com http://www.efflorida.org