Hi all,
FYI ...
Every Web site (or arm of a Web site) has some specific theme.
One arm of my Web site deals with the 60s/70s rock band Grand
Funk Railroad and that part of my site is in a Grand Funk Rail-
road Web ring. Part of my site has to do with the fact that I
still consider myself something of a drummer. That part is in a
drummer's Web ring. I have a really strange, unusual, (some
might say weird or ill-minded) fascination with the Teletubbies.
That arm of my Web site is in several Teletubbies Web rings.
And, I have Parkinson's Disease. And, that part of my Web site is
in the PWP Web ring.
So ...
Every Web Ring has an administrator and a Web author has to
request to the ring's administrator to be added to the ring. Up-
on approval, the Web author adds code to their Web page that
gives visitors to their site access to other sites in the ring.
The Web author has no control over what other sites get ap-
proved and added to the ring. That is the purview of the admin-
istrator only. The administrator of the ring usually looks at
the primary page of the URL the Web author is asking to be added
to verify that it's theme is in line with the theme of the ring.
Rarely will they take the trouble to explore the Web author's
whole site or click through on any of their links.
The Web author has absolutely no control over what other sites
are added to the ring. Nor, do they have any control over the
content or links on any other Web sites in the ring.
And, in any event ...
Pornography is a fact of life on the Internet. Based on what
I've seen in my six or seven short years on the 'Net (and the 47
years I've spent in this "reality" we call Earth), it ain't gonna
go away. No matter what moral code you choose to follow, no mat-
ter what belief systems you have fallen into, no matter what your
particular opinion on the subject is, it's out there and you have
to find a way to deal with it.
I've often said that if you give me any random starting URL,
five or ten minutes of time, and between 10 and 20 mouse clicks,
I can get to a porn Web site (without a search). It's just that
prevalent.
So, what does one do ...
Because of this, if it is important to you to be shielded from
the inevitable, if you want to keep your computer free of what
some people would call trash, there are many good blocking pro-
grams that are available and will keep such things from coming to
your screen. It really is a choice you must make. You either
put up with it or block it.
And, because of this ...
This whole topic of whether one of our list-member's daughter
has a porn Web site or not is certainly off-topic, is getting re-
ally ridiculous, and is already more than annoying. Drop it --
Please! If you feel the need to discuss such things, I'm sure
the Moral Majority's mailing list would be more than happy to
host the conversation.
Heck, I haven't even been to the Web site yet. But, based on
the comments on list and where they are coming from. *I* am sure
that there is absolutely nothing pornographic on this young wom-
an's Web site. I am absolutely positive that the people who
found the "porn," followed a link or two (Why the heck do you
think the call it the "Web?"), and ended up on a site that possi-
bly had some softcore "stuff" on it.
As someone mentioned that this woman has a Web cam on in her
residence (I believe someone mentioned this so long ago that the
other silliness that has occurred on the topic since has buried
it in my brain somewhere), I can assure you that there are *more
than a few* Web rings dedicated to people who have Web-cams on in
their home. And, by golly, yes, if someone has a Web-cam on in
their home, you might chance on a view from the camera that you
find objectionable.
Can we *please* drop this silly thread now before more people
get their feelings hurt unnecessarily? PLEASE?
If you want to know a little more about Web rings, one of the
many places you can go is:
http://dir.webring.yahoo.com/rw
But, be prepared, there are many Web rings out there that some
of you may find objectionable. If you click through to one of
them and find it necessary to blame me for your mistake, please
flame me off-list because your complaint will most certainly have
nothing to do with Parkinson's Disease.
Bill--
... who is still coming out of his "blue funk" and is still easily annoyed.
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