cyberfiltering: just say no -Reply

[Steve Hooley!]

        My wife worked a summer job long ago ripping the covers off of
unsold magazines ( the covers are returned as proof while the mag is
dumped). As most of the magazines were porno, women were hired exclusively
for this job as men tended to stop and go "WOW!" a lot more. She especially
enjoyed listing her occupation as 'stripper' on her tax form that year.
>Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 11:28:46 -0700
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>>>> Sheryl Dwinell <dwinells at vmsb.csd.mu.edu> 04/29/97
>08:45am >>>
>On a lighter note, think of what a fun job it must be to work
>for the folks who make CyberSitter and CyberPatrol. You get
>to surf the net for porn all day. I wonder what that does to
>their psyches and emotional well-being.
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>Absolutely.  o-)   I've got a friend who works in our library who
>worked in porn shops for several years before he got a library
>job, and moonlighted a bit after that.  He says that just as
>most of us who love lobster, for example, would get tired of it
>if we ate it for dinner every night for a few years, that one also
>becomes numbed to porn rather quickly.  From somewhat
>less personal experience, I'll agree completely.  
>
>And, another buddy who works in the computer center talked
>about the same topic when the first filtering program was
>announced a couple years ago....they offered a monthly
>update service....and we decided, at least jokingly, that we'd
>subscribe to that and share the URLs of the blocked
>sites...sort of a current awareness service for "dirty old
>preverts"....but then we learned that all was encrypted and
>we couldn't make use of the updates.  o-)   So, again, we
>dirty old preverts were protected from becoming even dirtier. 
>(I speak several times a semester to college students in a
>variety of classes about the issues of porn and
>censorship....and do NOT give them answers...but encourage
>them to make their own decisions....but, unfortunately, as is
>all too typical of students today....they want to know the
>"right answer" so they can regurgitate it on some lame test)
>
>cheers
>
>cyclops
>
>
>
>Dan Lester, Network Information Coordinator
>Boise State University Library, Boise, Idaho, 83725 USA
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