patch needed for Content Advisor

[The Bicycling Guitarist]

Service Patch needed, Windows Update or whatever.
How much coding would it take for the Content Advisor to change how it reads
the PICS tags? If it's not too much, please change it to help parents who
want to filter adult content from their children's surfing experience.


I have corresponded with ICRA tech op many times, and there is no doubt that
Internet Explorer's Content Advisor is not reading their PICS rating tags
correctly, passing adult-rated sites as kid-safe because the CA apparently
reads the domain as "gen true" and then doesn't pay attention to the "gen
false" for a specific page. The PICS recommendations clearly say that the
longer URL should take precedence.

Please at least post a reply to this message, as my previous one and the two
times I wrote Microsoft.com had no response that I know of.

Thanks. Chris Watson a.k.a. "The Bicycling Guitarist"

 

[The Bicycling Guitarist]

Service Patch needed, Windows Update or whatever.

Please at least post a reply to this message, as my previous one and the
two times I wrote Microsoft.com had no response that I know of.

Oh, I mean no disrespect to the gentleman who replied my last post. I was
hoping for an official response from a Microsoft spokesperson. Do they
monitor this group at all?

 

[Don Varnau]

Chris,
You will probably not receive a reply from anyone at Microsoft. If you use
the suggestion form at http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
your comments will, most likely, get to someone at MS who's associated with
Internet Explorer.

Don
[MS MVP- IE/OE]

 

[Gary Smith]

Oh, I mean no disrespect to the gentleman who replied my last post. I was
hoping for an official response from a Microsoft spokesperson. Do they
monitor this group at all?

Not officially. These are peer-to-peer support groups.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

Service Patch needed, Windows Update or whatever.
How much coding would it take for the Content Advisor to change how
it reads the PICS tags? If it's not too much, please change it to
help parents who want to filter adult content from their children's
surfing experience.


I have corresponded with ICRA tech op many times, and there is no
doubt that Internet Explorer's Content Advisor is not reading their
PICS rating tags correctly, passing adult-rated sites as kid-safe
because the CA apparently reads the domain as "gen true" and then
doesn't pay attention to the "gen false" for a specific page. The
PICS recommendations clearly say that the longer URL should take
precedence.

Please at least post a reply to this message, as my previous one and
the two times I wrote Microsoft.com had no response that I know of.

Thanks. Chris Watson a.k.a. "The Bicycling Guitarist"

In OE, Help | Microsoft on the Web | Send Feedback.
The message will be read by a human being but you won't get an answer.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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[The Bicycling Guitarist]

thanks to Gary, Don and Frank for helping me out. I feel like a lone voice
in the wilderness sending stuff to Microsoft. I'm sure they get tons of
email on every subject imaginable, but I'll try with the links you supplied.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

thanks to Gary, Don and Frank for helping me out. I feel like a lone
voice in the wilderness sending stuff to Microsoft. I'm sure they get
tons of email on every subject imaginable, but I'll try with the
links you supplied.

It helps to add another voice. Things are graded in their need for
fixing/changing by the frequency with which computers send error reports and
by the user input to the site I gave.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
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