I am personally opposed to filtering of any kind of the information available on the world
wide web.
I will not deliver a monologue on the fact that 'knowledge is power', and the restriction
of knowledge is inherently an evil practice.
'All the news that is fit to print' sounds wonderful.
Until you realize that someone makes the decision what is not fit to print.
Recall that in some countries it is not considered 'fit' to criticize the government.
That said: I know that not all of you share my feeling.
I have included in the table below links to some of the more popular network "filters." Some allow downloading of free "trial" copies.
| Yahoo Search | Results of a Yahoo search. |
| Reviews | Reviews of software available. |
| News Groups Filtering | Most of you don't use News Groups so this is less important. |
| Ziff Davis Security Briefing | ZD has several things to say about securing your system. |
| ICQ Filtering | ICQ is the other area of unwanted attention. Here is instructions on using the Ignore List. There is more on my ICQ page. |
| E-mail Filtering | E-mail is also a source of unwanted attention. There are Junk e-mail filters here. |
