All my friends, Looks like Australian users will be able to have a more wholesome internet experiance more easily. Australian Internet Filter Enters Trial Phase The Australian Government's plan to have http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23274585-15306,00.html internet service providers filter pornography and other internet content deemed inappropriate for children is going full-steam ahead. [...] The trial will evaluate ISP-level internet content filters in a controlled environment while filtering content inappropriate for children." It all sounds in good taste, and we are told that you will be able to opt out at any time, but will putting this filter in place simply give the powers that be the ability to block access to content for their own agendas. Censorship may be necessary, but should it be overseen by Government. I am sure some US and French adult web sites will be greatly disappointed. And some Australian patrons shall be disappointed as well... Se la vi! However given the opt out approach, in my opinion Australia did this smart at least... Frankly though I believe that any child pornography sites/domain names should be banned all together or taken down when identified immediately. American ISP's in particular could take a lesson none the less, from Australia's example here.... Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 277k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827