On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:57:53PM -0500, A. Craig West wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > > My kids are getting to the point where they need internet access. Thay are > > supervised to the best of our ability but I would like a content filtering > > system, There are several for windoze type apps, what about Linux? I really > > don't have an extra machine to set up squid/squidguard. > > As far as I've been able to tell, the only content filtering system that > actually works is your kids brain, with help from advice from the parents. > There will always be sites that get past the filters, and in my opinion a > much worse case, there will always be sites that should get past the filters > but don't. > Unless the goal is not to filter their access, but to train them to avoid > filters:-) In that case, most of the systems out there will probably do the > trick.
While I agree, I think there is also a preventative aspect as well, as I've seen some pretty rude banner ads, and while I agree that pretty much any kid can get around any filter and see anything they want (satire article related to this btw: http://bbspot.com/News/2000/11/challenge.html), I think that it's nice to be able to try to keep the porn from being RIGHT IN YOUR FACE if you know what I mean. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to search for some nazi lesbian midget pr0n.... <jk> alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- "The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing. -- Andre Maurois (Emile Herzog) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
