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You all make valid points.  However, something to consider is that for many of
 us
our proxy servers block sites such as Geocities for the specific reason that
 they
offer no control of content.  As a school teacher, I'm concerned that there
 needs
to be control over where students can go on the net.  At the same time, I
 realize
that many sites on geocities are of great value.  I've found that if I find a
 site
that I like, explore it, and find it to be useful to my students, I can then
 notify
the proxy to allow access to it.


Linda Richards wrote:

> Gerald, I think you missed Kathy Gill's point entirely when she said:
>
> > >personally, I would be more likely to discriminate against 'free sites"
 like
> > >GeoCities than ~ sites from Universities.
>
> And you replied:
>
> > This is the most ridiculous statement I have seen. My site is contains
> > more up to date information on How to do Just about Everything by E-mail
> > than any .edu. .com,. or even .gov site.
>
> Her comment wasn't about your site, it was about GeoCities sites in
> general compared to personal pages located on university servers. The
> idea of ruling out sites that contain a tilde is a far more ridiculous
> thought than ruling out the crap that many (not yours) GeoCities sites
> contain.
>
> So here's a solution: let's not rule out either because the reality is
> that the gold anyone is looking for when searching can possibly be found
> on any flavor of site at all.
>
> Boil it down further: there's no easy way to do this. No magic search
> criteria. There are so many variables and all of them determined by the
> first variable: the thing you're looking for. Eliminating any source
> because of the type of server it's on is a bad idea.
>
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