Hi, On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-1] J�rgen Dollinger wrote:
If you have mixed classes with enough girls you will not need a filter. Or do you want it to protect teachers?
No. Girls generally don't hang out in the Computer Lab as much as boys do hence they don't filter very much. Further the main reason for porn filtering is keeping the parents (and some teachers) happy. You don't really want to be in the situation where parents ask you whether their kids will have non-restricted access to porn, violence etc. and you have to say "sure". In the Schoolnetwork Goettingen we have a junkbuster-based central filter which is still being maintained by a couple of people. AFAIK they look at the logs and analyse requests in the "environment" of the request which caused the porn filter to hit (as someone looking for such content will have tried this before he was stopped by the filter and after). It's impossible to provide true protection for the kids; but it is possible to make their parents and other teachers etc. feel better as there are not only people in schools in favor of Internet use. Regards, -Sebastian -- Sebastian Fallert <s@Fallert.cx> |"The maximum length of a function Get PGP Key available at public | is inversely proportional to the Keyservers. | complexity and indentation level Get PGP Fingerprint/Key or Geekcode | of that funtion." fingering sfaller@linux01.gwdg.de | (Linux Kernel Documentation)