Hi Folks, You may have noticed that your ISP doesn't filter pornographic and "bad taste" sites very well. Some of them wait for schools to find the offensive sites and then inform them so that in a fortnight or so they can add the sites to their filter (including some of the supposedly school dedicated sites such as schoolzone). For our school (250+ machines, most "internetable") that situation is unacceptable. I use squid2 (and the url-regex function) to provide both proxy services and a first barrier against "bad sites" including foreign languages (try www.baise.net through your filter for example) and bestiality sites (which masquerade as respectable sources). I also block obvious hacking sites, several chats and some plain bad taste sites. It might be useful if someone could collate lists of these sites so that there is a general list new gateway servers can forbid? Any volunteers? (Sorry, I can't take it on just yet.) -- Best wishes, Derek Harding derek@lagham.zetnet.co.uk
On Fri 26 May, Derek Harding wrote:
Hi Folks,
You may have noticed that your ISP doesn't filter pornographic and "bad taste" sites very well.
It might be useful if someone could collate lists of these sites so that there is a general list new gateway servers can forbid? Any volunteers? (Sorry, I can't take it on just yet.)
I'm not sure if I should own up to this... But, if you download a free trial of Netnanny it is possible to export a list of thousands of sites which could usefully be banned. We then imported (after some cosmetic changes) the list into our Netscape proxy server (it used to be free to education...I'm not sure what the case is with the current owners).
From time to time I add the odd chat site and/or offensive site and keep an eye on the log file (...most popular site appears to be easyjet recently and its not accessed by the pupils...but the staff...)
It gives an illusion of protection at best. New sites come on line everyday and I think I could be more concerned about other persversions than porno and it is even more difficult to protect against mailing lists and/or web pages delivered by Email. I think a list of positively vetted sites would be more useful than a negative one. A list of suspect Email souces would also be useful. -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School
Hi all, Alan Davies wrote:
On Fri 26 May, Derek Harding wrote: I'm not sure if I should own up to this...
But, if you download a free trial of Netnanny it is possible to export a list of thousands of sites which could usefully be banned.
Please note I don't want to get involved in any pro or anti-censorship arguments, however before you accept the NetNanny list out of hand please take note of http://www.peacefire.org/censorware/Net_Nanny/ For details of NetNanny's "enthusiastic" blocking of websites. <snip> -- I love the smell of knowledge in the morning.
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