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In this issue:

	General announcements
1.	An encouraging trend
2.	A tale from the trenches
3.	This months golden nugget
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General announcements
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Welcome to the second issue of the SurfSafety.com news letter!
As always, we appreciate your subscribing and hope you will find
genuine value here.

With that in mind, If you have ANY suggestions for improvement
please send them to us. mailto:news@surfsafety.com

We've been working very hard to establish new distribution channels
for the book besides our web site alone.  By the time you receive
the next newsletter, Child Safety-Net should also be available at
Amazon.com, just in time for the holidays!  What better gift can
one give another than a little peace of mind?

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An encouraging trend
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I took an interesting phone call today from an Internet Service
Provider out in California.  But more than just interesting, it was
encouraging.

It seems he found my web site and decided to call and ask for help
locating cost effective software he could install on the server side
to be able to offer parental controls to his dial-up subscribers.
Many such ISP's are very small and the cost for such software is
often in the tens of thousands of dollars.  It represents a
significant investment in the welfare of families who subscribe to
that ISP.

We spoke at quite some length and I am delighted to be able to
report that I was able to illuminate for him many options he did
not even know he had.  In one form or another, this ISP will soon
offer parental controls to it's subscribers and in some small way I
contributed to the welfare of those subscribers and their families.
I applaud their commitment to this cause.  I pray for their
continued success.

Make no mistake.  I have no objection to presentation on the
Internet of ANYTHING so long as it is legal.  That includes adult
content.  As an adult, there are things I might want to see or
information I might want to gather which may or may not be
appropriate for my children and I will fight for the right of
content authors to present this content for me to review if I so
choose.

Likewise, I will also fight for the right of parents to be able to
control what enters their homes and urge content authors to include
the necessary tags in their code that enables us to filter content
according to criteria which we alone determine.

If you are looking for a new ISP to connect with, please consider
using an ISP with a similar commitment to the welfare of the family.
The WHOLE family.  Ask the questions.  Make an informed choice.  Let
that choice send a message loud and clear to ISP's without a similar
commitment - "Conform or be cast out."

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Tales from the trenches/Golden nugget
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Permit me to make an observation.

Those of you who found my site and subscribed to this newsletter are
obviously actively involved in seeking information regarding the
welfare of your families.  The remarkable growth of our subscriber
base gives testimony to that fact, so for that I thank you.

I reserved this section of the newsletter to share feedback sent in
from readers and seeded it with ideas in the first issue hoping it
would generate some comments which might be of value to others.  You
know.  Something you spotted in the news.  Another great site you
may have found.  What ever.

I thought it was a good idea but response to it has been completely
absent.  An idea before it's time, maybe?  I Don't know.  What *I'm*
looking for is to find out what YOU are looking for.  Tell me.  I
want to provide it if I can, to the benefit all.

Would any of you prefer a Q&A format for this section?  Please, send
your comments to news@surfsafety.com.  Let your voice be heard.  I
also monitor the Open Forum area of http://surfsatety.com/ for new
activity.  With the click of your mouse and a little help from
Netmind, you can too!  It's easy.  Go on!  Give it a try.  I will
gladly answer questions posed to me there also.

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Well, that does it for this newsletter.  If you spot something news
worthy, a new illegal drug name parents can add to their filter
list, a hate group with a domain name to filter, or would just like
to share your two cents worth, by all means, send them in and/or
post them to the Open Forum area at http://surfsafety.com/ .

Let's form such a tight knit community of caring parents that
nothing like the "Trenchcoat Mob" slips through the cracks ever
again.

Be informed.
Be involved.
And be well.

Most sincerely,
Mark Brasche
Owner, New England Webmasters
Author, Child Safety-Net