[Sheflug] Re: [SlugBug] Richard Ibbotson and sensorship at Sheflug

[Lesley Binks <lesley.binks [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Davies wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 12:00, Richard Davies wrote,

> I Guess that Richard Stevenson is a guy in New Zealand who actually runs the 
> Sheflug discussion forum for the group. In the past I had huge problems 
> registering on the Sheflug list as they didn't like my e-mail address. 
> Richard Ibbotson tried to register me directly as I couldn't do it via the 
> site and eventually it turned out that someone in New Zealand was filtering 
> my address and deciding that I was an unfit person based purely on this. When 
> Richard Ibbotson found out he told me to get another e-mail address or leave. 
> I got another address but hardly any of my post made it to the list so I 
> left.
> 
There are plenty of good mailing sites elsewhere that run LUG lists now.

e.g. http://mailman.lug.org.uk/

<snip>

> I am so far as I know still on the Sheflug list but none of my posts have got 
> there for years now so the filtering is long term.

Well, I don't know what's involved here but this and the ShefLug are
both open to minors.
It's not exactly a hard job to take the domain name from an email and
turn it into a URL is it?
It is quite possible that curious kids see all these email addresses
coming from
interesting looking domain names and will visit your website.

I'm all for people exercising their own choice of lifestyle but that has
to be
 tempered with a degree of sensitivity and some responsibility.

I don't think the website resulting from your domain name is at all
appropriate for minors.

You have absolutely nothing on it to indicate that it is an adult site or
has content of an adult nature and you ought to have that corrected.

An "It is legal for me to view this site" in small type below locale
selection flags
 is imho an insufficient attempt and does not indicate the adult nature
of the site.

Bear in mind a 13 year old (male or female) might not know what a chastity
belt is and will head into your site to investigate further.

And how about a <meta name="rating" content="Mature"> to help things
like Cyber Patrol
and NetNanny avoid your site?

Not that anything like this could be causing you problems with any
open-to-minors
mailing lists anywhere in the world at all.  Oh no.  Never does, does
it?  Geesh!!!


Lesley
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