From: IN%"reagle@mit.edu" "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." 10-MAY-1996 02:18:58.44

From: IN%"EALLENSMITH@mbcl.rutgers.edu" "E. ALLEN SMITH"

It is _very_ confusing to follow though.

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CompuServe, Microsoft, Prodigy and Netscape Communications will soon give their customers software enabling them to block access to material they judge objectionable on the Internet's Worldwide Web.

Consider that Compuserve had a deal with SurfWatch, which was incorporated in it "Internet" in a box, with a lot of Spry goodies. Now Surfwatch has been purchased by Spyglass (a competitor or Spry). Also, Compuserve offers RSACi services through CyberPatrols RSACi compliance (got some weird derivitive and cross-liscencing works going on here!) and urges its users and 3rd party people to use RSACi...

I don't suppose that someone at Netscape can give us more information on this than is currently out there? All we've seen so far are the press reports, which are often inaccurate. -Allen