On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Giles Nunn wrote:
The bess N2H2 filtering system is a blacklist proxy (with a few enhancements) based on squid running under debian - 1.3 in our case. It is provided as a service by N2H2 who provide a nightly update of the database. The blacklist is categorised so that only the categories required are blocked. It is provided here as a service to all the scholls in Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. I suspect that the reason that the osie site is blocked is that the hosting site uk2.net provides webmail aka hotmail. The fensystems site it is redirected is blocked because it comes up as part of freeserve which is automatically blocked en-masse, like geocities etc.
OK - this is only a temporary problem (because the hosting of the actual web page on UK2/FreeServe is only temporary). When it moves to a proper server (e.g. the one we are about to lease in Docklands and/or Phil Hands' machine), then the problem will go away. In the meantime, it doesn't matter if it (osie.org.uk) is blocked because no-one is meant to be looking at it anyway!
I have finally managed to skim through all the flood of mail we set loose last week. I agree it is time we moved this list somewhere else and let Roger's list get back to work. I don't mind where it is except that it would be better if everything to with this new initiative was hosted somewhere neutral. Sourceforge would be fine, or UKUUG if they were interested and had the facilities easily available. I suggest that we give averybody say 24 hours to object or suggest something better and then Michael can set us up on his sourceforge osie list.
Not "my" list - just one that I set up so that it was available if wanted (which it seems by now that it is). You can add yourself by visiting http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/osie-general if you want to do so. Many people already have. Michael