Reverse Pornography "Cookies"

[Barbara Stewart]

Alright, all you "filtering" types - listen up:

We know about cookies. Very well, on public access Web terminals in 
public libraries, we initiate a 5-minute "clean-up" librarian to check 
the cache of the previous user (this can be easily accomplished in places 
with 30-minute usage regulations). During this 5 minute period, the 
"filterer" will filter through the cache, and go to any possible "no-no" 
sites. If the accessed site goes against all the grains of common decency 
;-) then a "reverse" cookie will be attached. This reverse cookie will 
function as a censor, and disallow that particular bit of offensiveness 
from ever returning to that particular library web site. Clean the cache, 
and open the Web up to the next victim - ah, patron.  Repeat at 30 minute 
intervals.

Simple, clean, and effective ;-)

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Barbara Stewart
University ofMassachusetts, Amherst
stew at library.umass.edu
http://www.library.umass.edu/catalog
http://tpot.ucsd.edu/Cataloging/misc/top200.html  (completely modified in 
the next two weeks  - stay tuned)
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