UNBlocked by Cyber Patrol

Andrew J. Mutch amutch at tln.lib.mi.us
Wed Dec 24 23:20:39 EST 1997


Not to trudge old ground again...but what the hell, its the holidays and
you all are going to delete all these filtering messages when you get back
into work anyways....

Jamie,

I'm glad your out there fighting the battle but as many of us learned long
ago on this list, there is no point trying to tie David down to any
defined standard on what are acceptable levels of errors with 
filters.  Looking at the Filtering Facts site, Filtering Facts uses seven
standards to judge whether a particular filter is acceptable.  All seven
standards are completely subjective, using terms like "reasonable" and
"pornographic(you know it when you see it, right?)".  This gives David
plenty of room to wiggle and wiggle he will.  He has consistently refused
to define what consitutes pornographics material and I doubt you'll have
any better luck getting him to respond with a definite answer to what is
acceptable levels of errors. 

Happy Holidays,

Andrew Mutch




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