From: IN%"hal9001@panix.com" "Robert A. Rosenberg" 15-APR-1996 03:46:01.05

At 18:52 4/14/96, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:

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I'm not sure if the major use for ratings may not be searching for material that the raters don't like. I'd be interested in many things the fundys don't like, for instance. One could even do this via one of the "services" that mails out listings of places to be locked from kids - just sign up one of your anonymous employees, and get the data and put it on your anonymous web access site. Doing so - if you don't admit you've done it - may be cheaper than doing the research yourself. Of course, you'll need to check out each such site to make sure that it isn't a decoy that they've inserted.

When you do the checking, make sure it is from an IPN that does not point back at you (or at least only points to a Server Supplied not a Dedicated IPN). You might also want to watch out for "Canary Trap" Decoys (where each list has an unique set of Decoys [or at least one unique Decoy] so they can tell which copy was compromised). I'm assuming that the Decoy is a "valid" [possibly virtual] domain address which is being logged.

The way to get around the second problem is to sign up with such a "service" twice, then filter out anything not appearing on both. Since at least some of the parental censorship "services" have customization for the parent, doing more than one would also be a means to pick up more specific evaluations of the sites in question. -Allen