From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 02:45:52 +0800
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: Re: Washington Post -- "Block but Verify"
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On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Declan McCullagh wrote:

> [An editorial in today's Washington Post, about blocking software and the
> CyberWire Dispatch that Brock and I sent out earlier this month. --Declan]
> 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1996-07/15/006L-071596-idx.html
> 
> Editorial: "BLOCK, BUT VERIFY"
> 
> Monday, July 15 1996; Page A18
> The Washington Post
> 
> 
<SNIP>
>    read. One pitfall, though, as Messrs. McCullough and Meeks observe, is
>    the commercially inspired reluctance of many of these producers of
>    software to specify exactly what they are blocking. Though

A user-selectable menu would be, umm, interesting ... just how could one 
describe, in terms offensive to absolutely no one, what one's product is 
offering to block?

-r.w.