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> Will this be freeware? If not, I hope that someone has the good will
> to make one which is.
>
> Similar technology could be used to rate usenet and email list messages,
> perhaps. This is of the mobware apps we're going to need for online
> democracy.
It will be distributed as shareware. Initial releases will not be
pushie about payment. We are more interested in promoting the idea
of democratically rating the Internet and building up the 'critical
mass' of rated documents that we need to make the method work.
Being PICS compliant, other products will benefit from the public
databases that Net Shepherd will create.
We have already worked out the framework to use this system for
rating usenet. E-Mail lists will be somewhat trickier.
Ron Warris, President
Internet Filtering Systems, Inc.
(403) 258-5804
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Sender: •••@••.••• (Marilyn Davis)
Subject: Re: Mobware [cr-95/11/02] (was Re: Filtering and censorship
[cr-95/11/01])
>
> Sender: "Steve Eppley" <•••@••.•••>
>
> [snip]
> >CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA -- October 30, 1995 -- Internet Filtering
> >Systems, Inc. (IFSI) today announced Net Shepherd, the first product
> >designed to democratically rate and filter World Wide Web sites and
> >selectively supervise access.
> [snip]
>
> Will this be freeware? If not, I hope that someone has the good will
> to make one which is.
eVote isn't exactly free, but almost. It's $80, but you can get one with
a drop-dead date for Linux for free from our ftp site. It has a
programmer's manual and interface so you can embed it into anything
and thereby vote on anything with any user interface.
Myself, I'm working on an email interface for eVote that hooks into
majordomo so that majordomo run groups can take their own polls. *Mob*
indeed.
When there is an eVoting public, they will own and democratically control
the software -- development, policy, pricing, ...
>
> Similar technology could be used to rate usenet and email list messages,
> perhaps. This is of the mobware apps we're going to need for online
> democracy.
Yes.
The PICS project is historic, revolutionary. It's the first example,
of many to come, of online cooperation and engineering cleverness
hamstringing politicians. And, with the same enlightened stroke of
cooperation, we're displacing a chunk of bureaucracy, the would-have-
been net censoring agency, with a volunteer activity: voting.
So cheap, so fun, so fair. We're on our way home now!
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