Web site ratings

[Kurt Wall]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:08:28AM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> While I'm on the subject of parental control, has anyone raised the
> idea of including in the Apache headers information regarding the
> content of websites?  I'm talking about the G/PG/PG-130/R/X ratings
> that movies have, only encoding that in the headers coming from
> websites (totally voluntary and done by the webmaster) kind of thing?

Who's to decide the ratings, though? The webmaster? One person's
R is another person's PG.

> I believe that if we (being folks who run webservers) don't do
> something soon, the US congress may shove something distasteful down
> the world's throats.

Which will promptly be ignored by the world and a fair portion of
the US.

K
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