zcat(1): My kids (7 and 9) would like to be able to exchange email with their friends at school, email stuff to kids TV, enter competitions, etc. I've set them up their own email addresses, but I see today they're starting to get viruses and I have no doubt that spam (much of it highly pornographic) will soon follow. Now I have to discreetly pre-screen their mail. 

  

 MatthiasDallmeier: Yes, it wastes my time and money. (By the way, the original meaning of "spam" is not really the same as junk e-mail, so we should probably not use that word.) 

  

  

 | __Type__ | __Number__ 

 | Legitimate Mail |> 2.5% 

 | Identified as spam |> 51.5% 

 zcat(1): This shouldn't be necessesary. My children should not be recieving anything that they didn't explicitly subscribe to. I'm fairly sure they didn't sign up anywhere for hot oral sex and penis-enlargement emails, so I shouldn't HAVE to filter those out. 

  

 MatthiasDallmeier: I would tend to agree with Bruce on that one. Without UCE this is not an issue and such a requirement would only confuse matters. There might or might not be a need for such a requirement independent of anti-spam legislation and not limited to e-mail only though. 

  

  

 OliverJones: I agree with John. Pornographic content on the internet should be covered by the same laws that cover ponography in print. 

  

 PerryLorier: In print we have standard warning labels saying "This contains adult material", however on the Internet we can have the computer interpret that. The current laws say "They must be labelled", however there is no requirement that they must be labeled in a computer readable fashion. Being able to use something like [PICS] to mark up content means that automagic filtering of content is possible by computers, having text at the bottom that says "You must be old enough to read this email" while it meets the criteria for labelling theres no way a computer will be able to interpret that.