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Jeff wrote:
> 
> In article <4poak3$4ts@news2.ios.com>, hldpub@gramercy.ios.com (Hector
> Davila) wrote:
> 
> >   Is your computer being monitored by someone else?
> >  Is someone using your computer without your knowledge?
> >   Is your mate chatting online with someone else?
> >  Are your children chatting online with the wrong crowd?
> 
> I realize that you're just selling a product, but to potential customers:
> 
>    Reasons #1 and #2 are the only legit ones.
> 
>    Reason #3 disgusts me. Do you trust your mate? No? Then your problems
>    are already much bigger than worrying about some "chat group". This is
>    on a par with hiring a private eye.
> 
>    Reason #4 equally disgusts me. "Wrong crowd"? What the hell kind of a
>    parent spies on their kids. If they come from a loving family and have
>    a stable, secure background, then the crowd that they hang with will
>    never make a difference. They may end up being the positive influence
>    in that circle of friends.
> 
> Also, fear mongering is no way to sell a product.
> The first two reason were respectable, but there's no
> point in becoming one of those feed-off-of-other's-fears
> companies. There are enough of those.
> 
> --
> Jeff biggus@colorado.edu
> http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~biggus
> 
>       "But where danger is, grows
>        The saving power also."

Jeff,

While I agree with you on points 1-3, I think that point 4 in the 
original post was OK provided that it was done correctly.  If a child is 
hanging out with the "wrong" crowd, a parent has the right to know.  Not 
so that the parent can cut the communication, as you appear to think 
would happen, but to allow the parent and the child to discuss what is 
happening on the internet.  Children had a right to explore, and explore 
they will, but parents have a right to know, interceed and promote.  

In the online disucssions of the CDA there was floated the question, 
"What ever happend to parental guidence?"  It seems to me that point 4 
can be the starting point for a parental guidence discussion with the 
child.

Just my thoughts.
Claude Warren
Formerly of Lafayette