From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 18:14:10 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: SurfWatch
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Bill Frantz wrote:
> 
> At  3:27 PM 3/8/96 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:
> >(By the way, adult magazines voluntary label themselves as "adult": my
> >understanding from several comments by lawyers and adult industry
> >spokesmen, is that they are under no obligation to "voluntarily label"
> >their stuff. And some libraries have an _explicit_ policy that says any
> >card-holder, of any age, may check out or look at _any_ item the library
> >carries.)
> 
> IMHO Adult magazines label themselves "adult" as a form of advertising.  In
> the same way, a site with a sufficiently hard core self-rating may attract
> customers specifically because of the rating.

  I predict that 6 months after the first internet rating system is widely
deployed, the largest use of search engines such as altavista will be to
look for pages with the most "naughty" ratings.  Perhaps such services will
allow text searches for free, but charge for searches based on the rating
tag...

	--Jeff

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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.