>> Porn, theft, spam.

None of this need have much visible effect on most users who wish to 
avoid it.

ISP spam filtering is getting rather good, as are personal antispam 
products.

Theft is up to the individual - as long as you don't allow an open 
relay through your system.

Porn, should one wish to avoid it, can be avoided far far more 
successfully than almost anyone seems to claim. I choose not to go 
near porn sites (I'm a typical male and know that not starting is the 
only sure defence against all addictive things that target the 
pleasure centre strongly)(And the instruction manual says to flee from 
it, which seems to be extremely good advice). I am as active a pseudo 
random surfer as most (as people may have noticed), but I have 
probably accidentally stumbled on porn sites less than a dozen times 
in about 13 years on the internet. On the latest occasion I had a 
young woman with me who I was attempting to show something quite 
different and it was most embarrassing. I was using an anonymous proxy 
site to look back into my own server and probably got something cached 
that is more normal for that sort of service. I can't recall the last 
time it happened before that. My wife would probably claim that this 
was a result of failing memory :-).

The invisible effect of these resource consumers is to greatly 
increase the cost of implementing the net. Hopefully the pay per view 
people end up contributing their unfair share to my free surfing.



            Russell McMahon


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