Nasa

[Dianne L Parham]

I didn't miss the point.  I guess the idea is to ban all sites with the 
word NASA in it because there might be porn.  Well, I looked at the 
"porn" site and saw it was a commercial site for a lot of different 
things and there is no way a kid looking for space travel would bother to 
go farther.  The point is that it would be more useful to teach children 
AND ADULTS how to search the Internet than blindly thrash around yelling 
"porn alert, porn alert" as the person who shall remain nameless seems to 
like to do.  Of course he could do us all a great favor by publishing  
bookmarks of favorite X rated sites.  We can then hand them out and tell 
people by no means should they look at these sites.  Common sense and 
intelligence is the best filter.  and I think it is bizarre that we 
continue to feed the nameless one's ego this way.  Myself included.  I am 
going to quit rising to the bait of this absurd conversation and hope 
that this thread returns to something useful.  Dianne Parham, SDPL, 
speaking for myself and myself alone.

On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, David King wrote:

> >For anyone serious about verifying sites.
> >http://www.nasa.gov is the real NASA site...no porn.
> >http://www.nasa.com is a commercial site.
> >Would it be nice if one who will remain nameless checked these things out
> >first before getting hysterical?
> 
> Uhm... you missed the point.
> 
> Some people aren't going to know the difference between com and gov.
> 
> I just typed in "nasa" without "www" or "com" or "gov" and guess
> where netscape took me? To the commercial site, not the gov site.
> 
> That's the problem...
> 
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> David King
> Electronic Services Librarian
> University of Southern Mississippi
> dlking at ocean.st.usm.edu
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