Another difficulty in 'protecting' younger users:
 
        - Many, if not most, Usenet newsgroups have archives
          available via anonymous FTP.
        - Several sites allow anonymous users to read Usenet
          via Gopher/Mosaic.
        - Many, if not most, mailing lists also have archives
          available via anonymous FTP or email servers.
 
This leads to bigger control problems.  For instance, let's
suppose that your high school does not accept alt.sex.* as
part of its Usenet newsfeed; if you offer your students a
Gopher client, it doesn't matter, since they can simply con-
nect to one of (at least) a dozen sites and read it anyway.
 
You can enforce age limits on your LISTSERV list, but can
you limit access to your FILELISTs to 'subscribers only'?
 
You can't effect control on this scale without invalidating
the very tools we want our students to learn and use.  It's
a Catch-22; darned if you do, and darned if you don't.
 
--Wes