what utter tosh, of course those opinions are valid.

Many people new and inexperienced to the world of p2p and some of whom are parents, have yet to grasp the notion of what it is all about.

P2P being an immensley powerful and liberating application for pcs, putting one in touch with millions and involving moral choices not often presented in everday life is unsuitable for unsupervised use by minors.

see what a lack of PARENTAL CONTROL leads to http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co....entPK=12669356

Dear Lassie

I agree with everything you have said in your post, especially:

However, not your conclusion in favour of parental controls, you have said that P2P is "unsuitable for unsupervised use by minors". Therefore, parents should supervise their children’s use of the family’s PC and not try to palm off their responsibilities to a third party. If parents cannot be bothered to look after their children, and supervision is looking after, why have them.

Lassie, it is far too easy nowadays for people to try to blame someone else for their own shortsightedness, responsibility is not something that can be given away it has to be borne.



UK Bob

Aside from the issues of parental responsibility, MikeyMike's request is quite reasonable.

If password protection of the "adult" filter is easy to code, then I agree it should be added.

Frankly though, I suspect it will create more confusion and bugs, so do not expect it can be done effectively.

Absolutely. I wasn't engaging with the password protection of filter options.

Slightely confused here ukbobby01

when I said "...P2P being an immensely powerful and liberating application for PCs, putting one in touch with millions and involving moral choices not often presented in everyday life is unsuitable for unsupervised use by minors"

That was really my conclusion. When I say parental control I mean the parent supervising the child and not the parent relying on some software options like password protected filter switches - which in itself is not a bad feature.

So I believe we are in accord. Mind you, I know some parents could trust their kid to use p2p sensibly.

A password protection for the "adult" filter isn't very hard to code but the actual challenge is to protect the protection! This a nontrivial problem espeically if people have physical access to the computer or even worse if they use the same user account.

I have a quite precise idea how this can be done on Unix like systems but you (MikeyMike, caren) are likely no Unix users.

I have completed a version of Limewire with teh adult filter always on. Please email me at limewirefao@suscom.net if you are interested.

AMU

but a question to the parent, Why are you letting your children use this anyway?
you can get virus and aload other bad stuff also

You dont need parent control if you superviseing your child? if you there watching him what hes doing then that should be safe enough?

Well put, UK Bob! If I had children I personally wouldn't want them using a p2p network until they were old enough, not to mention responsible enough, to use them.