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Common sense must prevail. The first thing brought to me off the internet was a hacker's file, 100 pages long, explaining in detail complete with telephone numbers and passwords, how to break into business, govenment and military computers. No where in the Try-me document was there any indication that trying one of these numbers and passwords could land a child a serious jail sentence. It's called breaking and entering and the courts don't accept curiosity or just looking as an excuse. A research text is one thing but no one, in spite of all the censor-free ideals, stocks porn films, kiddy porn pictures and all that stuff that's on the net. If you did you would be fired! Should a third grader be exposed to it? Of course not. Are we responsible? Absolutely! Why suspend a child for writing filthy anonymous notes if we're going to teach how to do it in international style in the library? Linda Sande