From: "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 04:23:02 +0800
To: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: Mandatory Voluntary Self-Ratings
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At 07:58 PM 5/9/96 -0700, you wrote:
>For every proposed "ratings" system that involves value judgments about who
>should see something, I can think of examples where a quite opposite view
>is held.

        Yes, but it is possible to have "descriptive" systems. Of course, to
make them easy, things are aggregated into groups, and these groupings have
a value judgement. But it is possible to have rating systems that don't tell
you diddley about who sees it. 
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