PICS -Reply

[KAREN SCHNEIDER]

>>> "Timothy G. Kambitsch"
<kambitsch at DAYTON.LIB.OH.US> 06/04/97 12:00pm >>>
Karen Schneider writes:

The false in a PICS label is referring to the previous "gen"
statement, where "gen" is an abbreviation for "generic". So "l gen
false"  means "label generic false" or that this is not a generic
label.
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Hmmmm... I generated two labels yesterday; one was true and
one was false.  (This sounds like a Robert Burns poem...) The
true one is in the source code for
http://www.bluehighways.com/clout.html , fwiw.
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[followed by  an excellent rendition of a PICS label, As Played
By Tim Kambitsch...]
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MSIE will tell you in a dialog box which rating system stops you. It
will tell you which category it encountered, and it will even
translate the value for you.  So if you enable the RSAC ratings
with the filtering set to minimal values and then go to
http://www.persiankitty.com, MSIE will stop you.  But it will
tell you the following:
[etc.]

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This would be a good feature to look for, and specify, in a
PICS-compliant tool. 

Karen G. Schneider/schneider.karen at epamail.epa.gov
Contractor, GCI/Director, US EPA Region 2 Library
http://www.epa.gov/Region2/library/