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[Library Internet Resources Co-ordinator]

At 2:17 PM -0700 4/29/97, CMUNSON wrote:

>     "Pornographic sites blocked on this workstation"

I'd write as "Controversial and Pornographic sites blocked on this
workstation" since many of the sites blocked are not pornographic, erotic
or even sexual.

>     "This workstation has access to the full Internet, including
>     pornography. You have been warned."

That would probably generate a few lines of folks wnateing to access the
machine.

Now some libraries I have been to, such as San Francisco public's main
branch have many VT100 terminals using Lynx to access the web. This seems
one way to deal with offensive images.


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