1996-04-14 - Re: Protocols at the Point of a Gun

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From: Sten Drescher <stend@grendel.texas.net>
To: Steve Reid <steve@edmweb.com>
Message Hash: 02af3e2c8d2dea1d6b74119e7a53d8a453338fd3cb8c2d90dd53a5c86598d0ce
Message ID: <199604140501.AAA00441@grendel.texas.net>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-04-14 08:30:49 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 16:30:49 +0800

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From: Sten Drescher <stend@grendel.texas.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 16:30:49 +0800
To: Steve Reid <steve@edmweb.com>
Subject: Re: Protocols at the Point of a Gun
In-Reply-To: <v03005b03ad944efa70c3@[206.126.100.99]>
Message-ID: <199604140501.AAA00441@grendel.texas.net>
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>>>>> Steve Reid writes:

SR> Analogy: It would be like putting a license plate on the engine of
SR> a car.  It *could* be done that way, if you redesign the car so
SR> that the engine protrudes out from the back with a place for the
SR> license plate (let the technical people handle the technical
SR> details of that). But the best place for a license plate is on the
SR> outside body of the car, and the best place for content filtering
SR> is at the application layer.

	No, the best place for content filtering is in that grey lump
mounted between the shoulders of most humans.  But that relys too much
on personal responsibility for the NetNannies to accept.  Besides the
fact that most of the NetNannies don't seem to use that grey lump that
often.

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