At 08:06 PM 1/25/96 -0800, Johnathan Corgan <jcorgan@aeinet.com> wrote:
This would allow to emerge a free market 'ecology' of ratings agencies, similar to the system that has emerged in the PC technology market for product reviews.
This seems to me a task of crucial importance, as I listen to the conversations of relatively net-clueless folks. Their first reaction, upon learning about net abuse, is to demand that abusers be tracked down and punished. Privacy-enhancing tools make this more difficult. It seems to me that if we're to avoid a wholescale crusade against net privacy, we _really_ need to have a credible alternative to offer: both the software and the wetware :-) to let individuals screen out offending drek. Having canned solutions is especially important, since many of the people most susceptible to anti-privacy propaganda are precisely those who don't know and likely aren't going to know how to construct their own filters. I see this as a matter of enlightened self-interest, therefore. I can't write code worth squat, but I can write other things. I'm starting in on a Web-based guide to privacy tools, with screen shots and the like. If anyone has useful info to contribute about screening out crud for novices, write me! I need to hear from you! Bruce Baugh bruceab@teleport.com http://www.teleport.com/~bruceab