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I did a presentation to a small part of my staff on internet filtering and
acceptable use policies.  The other day two messages were posted about sites
with information on filtering.  http://www.peacefire.org/ and
http://www.bluehighways.com/tifap (about an upcoming book on filtering)  I
found these to be very informative.

I have two  questions;  If I have a site with extremely graphic pictures but am
very careful to make any text, headings, titles etc extremely innocous so that
any key word filter would not focus on any of my text - would the site be
blocked without a human viewing the page?

Second - to what extent would an accdeptable use policy stating that students
are not to go to unacceptable sites be an infringement of the library bill of
rights?  What is the difference between blocking a site and forbidding someone
to go to the site?

I am asking because I don't know not for any agenda of my own.

Deborah Stafford
Gen H.H. Arnold HS
Department of Defense Dependents Schools
Wiesbaden Germany
stafford@email.wiesbaden.army.mil
or  deborah_stafford@ccmail.odedodea.edu

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