[K12OSN] text only internet

Access Systems accessys at smart.net
Mon Feb 21 19:15:18 UTC 2005


On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Nakashima wrote:

> On Saturday, February 19, 2005, at 04:24  PM, Access Systems wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Will Hatch wrote:
> >
> >> I have no choice but to configure my k12 server so users can only
> >> access the internet with a text only browser.  The school has had
> >> trouble with students viewing photos and this seems like the only
> >> solution.
> > get a "Shell" account from your internet provider, only access is via
> > unix
> > (Linux) shell account, is usually much cheaper and it is text only,
> > even
>
> Not an expert, but...
> 1. Aren't there ways to pass images via text files?

yes but you then have to forward them to another e-mail address, so it
seems a catch 22 since they would have no other e-mail address to pass
them to

> 2. Couldn't sexually explicit text be just as bad for sex offenders?

have you ever seen sexually explicit text sites,  I haven't if they exist
and I would not doubt that they do, they are pretty rare.

mostly an X rated site says something like this


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wow you should see this [inline]
   and when we finished that we did [inline]

and you really know you want to [inline]

but first you have to [inline]

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you get the idea

Bob


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