Return-path: Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 21:01:21 -0800 From: "James S. Tyre" Subject: Memorandum to Susan Getgood (As If) X-Sender: J.s.tyre@postoffice.worldnet.att.net To: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu Cc: Susan Getgood , David_Burt@filteringfacts.org A MEMORANDUM TALE To: Susan Getgood, Director of Marketing, Microsystems From: Michael Perik, Chairman and CEO, The Learning Company Date: January 8, 1998 Re: CyberPatrol Errata Susan: When The Learning Company acquired Microsystems, we were led to believe that the problem with bad blocks would be cleaned up with the release of CyberPatrol 4.0. We were particularly concerned with blocks of completely innocent sites such as http://www.maplesoccer.org, which we were assured was a random error, which no one would have noticed until some loudmouth revealed it on the fight-censorship list last summer. Indeed, no less an authority than David Burt wrote on his website that: "14.MAPLE This site for the Mass. Soccer League, www.maplesoccer.org was briefly blocked by mistake." I was most chagrined, then, to learn that the Maple Soccer site had been reblocked. And even more chagrined was I when I learned that the revelation came from one of those biased, unscientific First Amendment absolutists at The Censorware Project, right after Christmas. Really, Susan, didn't they give us enough grief just before Christmas? I, for one, did not appreciate that. And as an aside, why do you think they didn't include that one in their initial, pre-Christmas report? What others do they have that you haven't told me about? In any event, I spent my new years comfortable in the thought that we could never make the same mistake a third time, since those CWP folks confirmed for me on December 31 that the site had been unblocked. Well, Susan, I just checked the CyberNOT list. And much to my horror, I discovered THAT MAPLE SOCCER IS BLOCKED AGAIN! FullNude, PartNude, SexActs! I surely hope that we get it unblocked before the Censorware Project exposes our seeming incompetence again. Susan, *please* see to this! In baseball, at least, three strikes and you're out. Michael Perik MP:jst