From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 07:55:42 +0800
To: reagle@mit.edu
Subject: Re: Mandatory Voluntary Self-Ratings
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From:	IN%"reagle@mit.edu"  "Joseph M. Reagle Jr."  9-MAY-1996 20:02:59.66

>        I would agree the questions seem too video game orientated, and I
>don't like some of the questions either. However, it is a fair effort, and I

	I will also give them credit for a fair effort. However, it's one that
can stand a _lot_ of improvement... like all the rest.

>        I'm sure this is something that could go on for a very long time in
>some cypherpunk thread (something I'm not interested in argueing about), but
>there is no such thing as a perfectly objective or unbiased system. For

	I will be interested in seeing a response from the admin address I
cc'd it to.

>instance, I don't like the distinctions other systems make for
>homosexuality, but I also understand some parents may wish to screen on it...

	I understand why parents may wish to screen on it; I still disapprove
of giving them the ability to do so. Am I in favor of governmental or other
coercive suppression of systems that do so? No, not at all. But I still will do
my best to discourage them - such as by not rating or mis-rating pages.
	-Allen