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Hi Folks, Well, it's April 1 and only a few more blockages have been posted, because it's a weekend and people are on spring break. Nevertheless some interesting things are surfacing. Bookbear reported blockages by WebSense, of the American Cancer Society and the American Kennel Club. BB's comments noted that the Cancer Society was probably blocked because of "breast" cancer. That may or may not be the case. I didn't investigate the reason. However, her/his only comment about the AKC was, "why why WHY??????" I did a little digging and I think I figured out the reason. You'll LOVE this!!!! At first I wondered whether they used the proper name for a female dog somewhere on the page, but they didn't. I even checked the keyword and meta tags in the source code for the page. Not finding anything objectionable on the web page, I decided to take a closer look at the source code. That's when it hit me... The main theme of the page is "For the LOVE of the Purebred DOG". That in itself isn't significant. However, if you move your mouse over the links on the page you will see that much of the content of the site is contained in the subdirectory named "love". No go to the View menu of your browser and view Page Source. You will see that because so much content resides in the love directory, the code for the page uses the word "love" more than two dozen times. Here's a small part of that page's source code. <A class="green" HREF="/love/museum/index.cfm">AKC Museum of the Dog</A><BR> <A class="green" HREF="/love/dah/mrmurf/askmrmurf.cfm">Ask Mr. Murf</A><BR> <A class="green" HREF="/love/links.cfm">Links</A><BR> <A class="green" HREF="/love/faq.cfm">FAQ</A> I guess you can say that all of the love at the American Kennel Club has rendered WebSense, Senseless. Remember if you get blocked a site that shouldn't be blocked, blow the whistle!!! The very short form for reporting is at http//oii.org/html/overblocking.html Stay tuned. In tomorrow's update, I'll tell you a really funny incident that took place back in 1995, before filters were around. It's about how some college students used XXX to get funding for a high-level plasma physics project. Art [ Previous ] [ Filtering Home ] [ Next ] |
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