In my last mailshot I left out my school eMail address; I've had to send from home because the school's ISP has been off line (again) all day.
We've had four disconnections this year (Feb 25, 28, May 9, May 19-23) owing to BT 0820 SIC ISDN faults, though for nearly all of all of them we were able to dial in on 0845 lines instead, our ISP RMifl was OK but the BT/Energis lines weren't. Would be interested to share experiences. We also find the RM filtering good, and feel that it's an impossible job trying to maintain our own lists, though I have a few (eg making money by surfing sites).
It would be useful if squid could read some of its configuration from include files, then adding to the filters would be more straightforward. Perhaps it can and I haven't found out yet.
It was a year before I worked out the following syntax (no indent): acl bad-sites dstdomain "/usr/local/etc/squid/bad-sites" acl webmail dstdomain "/usr/local/etc/squid/webmail-sites" acl bad-types urlpath_regex -i "/usr/local/etc/squid/bad-types" where bad-types currently contains: \.viv$ \.mp3$ \.avi$ \.mpg$ \.ace$ and the other files just lists of URLs one per line, like this extract: www.alladvantage.com surf4cash.homepage.com desktopdollars.com paid-to-surf.com -- Christopher Dawkins, Felsted School, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3JG 01371-820527 or 07798 636725 cchd@felsted.essex.sch.uk