Filtering "education"

[Ronnie Morgan]

At 09:03 AM 6/11/97 -0700, Burt, David wrote:
>Library patrons are told whoppers like "all filtering relies on keyword
>blocking, therefore, it is unavoidable that most information on breast
>cancer will be blocked because it contains the word breast".

Good point, David.  This is exactly why we need to be talking about "how"
and not "why".  Sure, right now, the filter programs may do the above (and
I don't really know for sure that it is that way), but, that is no reason
to say that we shouldn't filter at all.  Filtering software is a very new
thing.  Debates on how to filter will be seen by the filter companies, and
they (if they want to stay in business) will make thier programs be what WE
want them to be.  

Ronnie