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To: Phillip Salzman <psalzman@gamefish.pcola.gulf.net>
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Subject: Re: BESS internet filtering
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	You can use database that suppling some firms for thier products ... NetNanny ,
for instance .... 

	I dontt know anything about legal status of this problem .... but in practice 
	it's unapplicable in 90% , if you are ISP, because what you will do with most
of your 		clients (by our statistics , the porno-traffic :) is about 35-40% )?

Phillip Salzman wrote:
> 
>         That would be a good idea, except we lack the resources to
>         constantly update the database whenever someone finds a new
>         pornography site, which i'm guessing 18% of the internet
>         sites are, if not more.
> 
>         I was mostly interested if someone knows about the legal status
>         of doing something like this.  Will we lose our carrier status
>         as an ISP, and become provider of internet content?  Have you
>         ever heard of someone being sued due to finding pornography
>         when it was supposed to be filtered (even though we will say
>         "This does not entirely remove..."), etc.
> 
>         Thanks for the reply.
> 
>         Phillip Salzman
> 
> On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Casper wrote:
> 
> > and what about simply write redirector for squid? You only need some database of
> > url , that you want to disable ..
> >
> > Phillip Salzman wrote:
> > >
> > > This may be a little bit off topic, but does anyone
> > > know much about the BESS filtering system?  It is a program
> > > that filters "unwanted" content from ISPs dialup users.
> > >
> > > Some of the things it filters is pornography, with an
> > > assortment of others.  It's up to the ISP on what they
> > > want filtered.
> > >
> > > I was wondering if any of you have had legal problems with
> > > something like this, or technical.  Someone I know told
> > > me it either runs FreeBSD or Linux, but he wasn't sure.  With
> > > a hacked-up squid, or started with squid.
> > >
> > > The website for BESS is at http://www.n2h2.com/
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Phil
> > >
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