[bksvol-discuss] Re: adult content
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 21:40:51 -0500
I don't know if it was the content checker or the volunteer, but I had one
of my scans marked as adult, so I thought it was missing from the
collection. That book was just about the most harmless kids book I had ever
read. :-)
I had my content adviser for Internet Explorer do something even more
strange. It wouldn't let me look at the Microsoft website. lol So maybe
Dave has a point. Microsoft knows it's evil.
I was just happy that I remembered the password I gave the stupid thing. :-)
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
curious entity at earthlink dot net
----- Original Message -----
From: <trekman13@xxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:50 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: adult content
> It amazes me the things those "filters" will block. I can't think of
> anything right off my head, but I have been doing research for things
> before on my school network, and out of the blue I get one of those CIPL
> blocked sight things. They annoy me to no end...
> Nehemiah
> "Back in the sixties he was part of the free speech movement at Berkeley.
> I think he did a little too much LDS." Captain James Kirk, Star Trek IV.
> The Voyage Home
> Email: trekman13@xxxxxxxx or trekman13@xxxxxxxxx
> MSN: strongeagle2197@xxxxxxxxxxx
> aim screen name: NehemiahRepublic
>
>
> On Tue, 18 May 2004 11:16:04 -0400 (EDT) Tracy Carcione
> <carcione@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Dave,
> > The content checker found maybe 25 violent or sexual words in "Grow
> > the
> > Best Blueberries"! Beats me what they could have been.
> > Pollination?
> > Some kind of wilt?
> > I agree, those content checker programmers need to get out more!
> > Tracy
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 18 May 2004 talmage@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > This is more-or-less a humorous comment on the content
> > checker that
> > > Bookshare runs the books through when they are being uploaded for
> > acceptance.
> > > I just uploaded a user guide for a wireless access point to
> > Bookshare, and
> > > when the content checker was done it reported 2 words that were
> > > profanity or violent or sexual words.
> > > Now yes I realize 2 words aren't many, but the computer hardware
> > manual was
> > > only about 28 pages, and I can't imagine what words it picked out.
> > Maybe
> > > they were something like Microsoft, so I guess I can see the
> > checker's
> > > point there .
> > > In any event, I recognize that the content checker was probably
> > put
> > > together by a computer programmer or 2, so my recommendation is
> > that
> > > perhaps they should get out more.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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