what the shit? …got an email the other day from somebody informing me that my site for and about research wonks is not available at many libraries because of some crapola filtering software that’s tagged my site poorly…who knows - maybe it’s the ‘farging’ swears…a nasty little lett-ah is already en route to the company’s “customer advocate” team (cc’d Draco) …here’s the original letter to explain it:

Hi Dave,
Your website is being censored in most Ga. (Georgia) public libraries. Here’s the message that appears when a patron attempts to visit your site:

Forbidden, this page (http://www.passingnotes.com/) is categorized as: Chat.

The censorware product is called (irony alert) “Smartfilter” and it’s made by a company called “Secure Computing“, here’s the URL to verify this info:
http://www.securecomputing.com/sfwhere/

Sucks, eh?
Jack

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