Re: tcp/ip filtering

Michael Riepe (riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de)
Fri, 17 May 1996 03:27:54 +0200


From: Coolio <omnilord@igc.net>

> On the subject of implementing a server based tcp/ip packet filtering
> system...
>
> > Okay, I see the scale of what you are trying to do now.... It would
> > certainly be a neat demonstration!
>
> Yeah! And definetly a bonus for linux, if it became an easily configured
> option (maybe with its own mailing list & constantly updated database of
> "no-no" words & sites...)
[more bullshit deleted]

Sorry to interrupt your conversation, but this has to stop NOW. Linux
is an operating system, not a configurable "network indecency filter".

I can hardly believe that someone calls an automatic censorship module
a "bonus" or a "neat demonstration". That's sick.

-- 
 Michael "Tired" Riepe <riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de>
 "Beware the storm that gathers here!" (The Prophet's Song)