> Point is, with a simple toggle/check-box in the browsers/firewalls/proxie > servers you could no longer pull up John Doe's picture of his dog when you > really wanted research on a breed of dog, or Jane Doe's picture of her dog > she likes so much ;-| > > A school could set that the educational/research bit had to be flagged? > > Enforcement would be via random checks which should keep people in line, > govt could random check everyone (sounds like too much work and govt power) > or govt could random check but the sites ISP gets fined for violations, so > the ISP should do random checks, or review new content? At any rate it would > be really easy to include the info with all the content and make everyones > life easier. > > ***Of course since some material is kinda in the middle, maybe each category > could have 3 settings (losses it's binary elegance but oh well) so for > example educational would have 3 settings, yes/no/maybe so if it was KINDA > educational in content you set it to maybe. This way viewing/filtering could > be more of less restrictive as desired. This is sort of a continuation of a problem I find with how hypertext works [or doesn't work depending on the way you look at it]. Links on pages are, in theory, designed to link to further information regarding that subject : however that is contextual to how the reader is reading a document : the world 'firewall' within a document could be linked to different contexts depending on the readers knowledge [simple description, complex description, howto, dictionary, linguistic interpretation, technical interpritation, or a complete index of resources or many more .. it also expands outwith the word in the context of that word within a sentence, within a paragraph, and within the full document] ... the resultant page also has a context for what content if provides [educational, factual, resource, index etc.] ... these aren't catered for in HTML as is. If a rating system like that was built into the pages (& implied subcontent, such as images, embeded materials and so on) then it would be a lot easier for that content to be blocked at the perimiter of a network, or when crawled by spiders. Of course, this has nothing to do with security in terms of firewalls, but it could be useful in judging the validity of content to users at a perimiter interface ..... however I'll shut up now. d. -- Dorian Moore is property of Kleber Design Ltd. If found please contact Kleber by phone on +44 207 581 1362 or visit http://www.kleber.net for further details. You really shouldn't listen to anything he says... as it may just be an opinion - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
