Well here, there are usually more kids on the computers than adults. And
there's no supervision policy. Of course, I won't touch the computers
there now after having seen an extremely snotty-nosed pre-teen wiping
his nose with his hand and then typing away on the computer. I'm more
concerned with the real germs than I am with the virtual cooties.

-Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:12 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Porn in the Library
> 
> 
> Living is a fairly large city where the Library 
> Administrators had refused to install filtering, with the 
> reasoning that no child should be allowed to use Library 
> computers on the internet without parental supervision. They 
> have had a policy in effect for years now, refusing 
> unsupervised use of the internet by minors, requiring them to 
> be accompanied by and under the direct supervision of a parent.
> 
> Another reason was that less than 10% of the use of library 
> computers was by minors, and the remainder by adult users, 
> who do not require filtering.
> 
> I suppose this ruling will mandate that they install the 
> filtering, even though they do not work as expected.  Porn 
> Site operators are very busy detecting and circumventing any 
> filtering system in existence.  You can tell this just by the 
> spam you receive.
> 
> This also does nothing about the access from home, or the 
> porn sites actually owned and operated by minors.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harkins,Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 8:59 AM
> Subject: RE: Porn in the Library
> 
> 
> | I'm in favor of the porn filters in the library as well. If 
> people are 
> | going to that then they are wasting the bandwidth. -Patrick
> |
> | >-----Original Message-----
> | >From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | >Subject: Re: Porn in the Library
> | >
> | >
> | >nobody commented on this. Too many other topics, or does 
> nobody else 
> | >find this slightly troubling?
> | >
> | >Dana
> | >
> |
> | 
> 
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