Hope the following is of interest and help. I recently went through the process of registering a personal astronomy website through free internet content rating services in order to assure that the site could be seen by persons accessing from "child-safe" filtered websites. Not currently having any school age children, I have not tested the filtering from a Utah primary or secondary school computer. www.slas.us and Clark Planetarium do not appear to be registered with any of the child safe service sites. Since one current emphasis of SLAS's annual programs is to increase its Utah school activities, the following are my notes on registering a site for child-safe content filtering: 1) Utah Education Network - covers primary and secondary Utah schools - UEN Filtering Page Appears to use, through the Utah State Library, sites approved for primary and secondary schools through a private service branded "N2H2" (now also branded "SmartFilterWhere") run by Secure Computing Corp.: http://www.uen.org/policy/filtering.shtml Secure Computing Corp. N2H2 site checking utility - http://database.n2h2.com/cgi-perl/catrpt.pl Neither SLAS or Clark are returned by the checking utility as registered. If your site is not currently in the SmartFilterWhere-N2H2 database, the N2H2 site checker provides the option to suggest the site for inclusion in the N2H2 database. The UEN Help Desk may be able to provide advice. http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourViewCategory.cgi?category_id=20140&tou... 2) Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) http://www.icra.org/ ICRA site tester http://www.icra.org/label/tester/ The ICRA is one of two generally recommended child-safe filter services recommended by Microsoft at its Internet Explorer 6.0 site: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/using/howto/security/contentadv/config.m... ICRA is also used by Netscape Navigator, Netwatch feature. http://wp.netscape.com/comprod/products/communicator/netwatch/ The ICRA is a little complicated to use. After registering your site, they email you a content metatag that you have to put into the header section of _each_ web page of your website. http://www.icra.org/label/ Neither SLAS or Clark are returned by the checking utility as being labelled. 3) SafeSurf Corp. http://www.safesurf.com/ SafeSurf is the second of two generally recommended child-safe filter services recommended by Microsoft at its Internet Explorer 6.0 site. SafeSurf is also used by Netscape Navigator's Netwatch feature. SafeSurf is easier to register with than ICRA. Safesurf allows you to put in an entire domain subdirectory. Any webpage in that domain subdirectory is given the same rating. Note if you choose the option to self-rate your site as "Medical/Technical Educational Reference," your site will be restricted only the "older teen category." This will filter-out most school age children. Unfortunately, I could not find a site checking utility at the SafeSurf site. 4) PICS Standard - W3 Open Standard http://www.w3.org/PICS/ PICS uses a self-generated meta-data label - similar to ICRA - but there is no independent controlling service. PICS standard is referenced by Netscape Navigator and MS IE for content filtering. I found a PICS rating label generator on the internet at the Vancouver Webpages Rating Service: http://vancouver-webpages.com/VWP1.0/ Vancouver Webpages Rating Service PICS label generator http://vancouver-webpages.com/VWP1.0/VWP1.0.gen.html However, SafeSurf generates a third-party verified PICS level 1.1 label, so I decided not to add a second self-generated PICs label. The source HTML for the SLAS and Clark websites do not appear to contain any PICS labels. - Canopus56 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com