*sigh* Legalities and such...
Nov. 22nd, 2005 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
estiriseI was just reading an interesting discussion on Atomic Think Tank (the message board for Green Ronin's Mutants and Masterminds, a very cool OGL d20-based superhero RPG), and it put me in mind of something.
Occasionally, I put in suggestions to WebSENSE about its blocking. The first one I did I posted off to the Seruma Censorware blog (which is on Serumamakkurori.net, aka Seruma, my personal website). I posted up pretty much the whole email (their response plus my original suggestion). I'm planning on doing the same thing on my latest, which is a request to unclassify peacefire.org. I don't think there's a chance in heck of them unblocking it, but I want to post their response if it's a negative, because I think that it would give a good look at how they think. Thing is, it's a semi-private email (a response to a web form), so it's kind of a grey area.
The fun thing about the peacefire request is that I have mixed feelings about their (Peacefire's) methods. I know that proxies are one of the few decent ways to get around the idiotic censorware blocking, but it's a certain way to piss off sysadmins (and my uncle's one, so I understand that POV). I'd rather people not deploy censorware than their victims having to use possibly dangerous proxies to be able to access the Internet freely.
Occasionally, I put in suggestions to WebSENSE about its blocking. The first one I did I posted off to the Seruma Censorware blog (which is on Serumamakkurori.net, aka Seruma, my personal website). I posted up pretty much the whole email (their response plus my original suggestion). I'm planning on doing the same thing on my latest, which is a request to unclassify peacefire.org. I don't think there's a chance in heck of them unblocking it, but I want to post their response if it's a negative, because I think that it would give a good look at how they think. Thing is, it's a semi-private email (a response to a web form), so it's kind of a grey area.
The fun thing about the peacefire request is that I have mixed feelings about their (Peacefire's) methods. I know that proxies are one of the few decent ways to get around the idiotic censorware blocking, but it's a certain way to piss off sysadmins (and my uncle's one, so I understand that POV). I'd rather people not deploy censorware than their victims having to use possibly dangerous proxies to be able to access the Internet freely.
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Date: 2005-11-23 03:28 pm (UTC)We *love* Mutants and Masterminds! We just got done playing a mini campaign a few months ago. It rocks all kinds of goodness. Can I just say I'm so impressed with your RPG taste? :)