Posted @ whirlpool - ILCF pt2

"Murk Nowt-on/Newtorn", huh ? There's a name I've not seen since the heady LTUAE daze of FIDOnet. Will have to peruse my archives later on and see what banalities he had to share from back in the early '90s. Heh.

Bah, who really cares about all this ISP filtering stuff just as long as Speed isn't unduly hampered ... unless we are talking about a certain R.Speed that is.

I for one am actually all for every ISP by law being required to continually submit logs of their user's registrations, IP addresses per session and URLs visited rather than embarking on wasteful content filtering.

On one side of the coin, The Fear that the Powers That Be would know that (for purposes of example) Murk might like to visit sites relating to topless gerbil racing might in turn help him to self moderate browsing habits in that regard, and on the other side of the coin, the reality of some Government department having to merely accept the level of data (before even beginning to process it in a meaningful way) would actually create the situation whereby the vast majority of us would have absolutely no cause for concern let alone any kind of reduction in service.

The reality is that ISPs already have IP/URL relationship data happily scrolling/logging by, so how hard would it be to forward it up the line to a department designated to care but won't anyway ?

Drown such a department with data and all of Murk's petty concerns and obvious years of "waa, waa, waa"ing sink with it. :)

regarDS

[NOTE: light grey areas had to be removed from original message before it was accepted]