Reverse Cookies? (was: Reverse Pornography "Cookies")

[Peter Murray]

Exactly what is a "reverse cookie" and how does it prevent you from
visiting a site?  (This is a technical question, not a comment or position
on content filtering.)


Peter

--On Thu, Jul 3, 1997 6:00 AM -0700 "Barbara Stewart"
<stew at library.umass.edu> wrote: 

> 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.



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Peter Murray, Library Systems Manager                      pem at po.cwru.edu
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