Re: Blacklist project proposal (was Re: Banner ad blocker? Anyone with a good blocklist...)

Good $daytime,

> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 21:45:28 +1000
> From: Dancer <dancer@brisnet.org.au>
> To: willy@snowyowl.csu.ac.ru
> Cc: squid-users@nlanr.net
> Subject: Re: Blacklist project proposal (was Re: Banner ad blocker? Anyone with a good blocklist...)

> ISP hat:

ISP hat on.

> The trouble is, of course, if you make _any_ effort to filter content,
> you become legally liable as if you were the _supplier_ of any of it
> that slips through. Think very hard about that. That law passed in the
> USA two years ago, and in Australia last year. Maybe in other countries
> as well, now.

1. What about _optional_ service for customers? There are people
   who do not want to pay for ads/endless kid's chats/porno. Customer
   will get it blocked by his own decision. Such practise is widely
   known in email spam filtering.

2. As I'm in Russia right now, I can read amends to US Constitution as
   science fiction, at least in foreseeable future -- no offense all
   US people :)

3. Our ISP is academic research network (see http://www.free.net/).
   FREEnet policy explicitly defines inacceptable activities. Lacking
   bandwidth, we should be able to not only _declare_ but _enforce_
   such policy, shouldn't we?

> My Employee hat:

ISP hat off.

1. One's corporate network may have Internet usage policy in accordance
   with company goals. As such policy is applicable to employees
   only, it doesn't involve any freedom of speech issues. Am I wrong?

> In _this_ capacity, I'm stuck needing to do the best, most adaptive
> filtering job that I can. I can _make_ software...what I need are
> _techniques_ and _lists_..

  Regards,
  Willy.

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