offensive sites, yes. In order to reduce their liability for sexual harassment/child pornography, etc., sure. But all blogs and forums? Because that is what I am understanding from "catalogued sites."
On 9/3/06, Jeff Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, a system that blocks offensive sites makes perfect sense in a > corporate environment. Keeps the lawsuits down. An employee can actually > sue the company for harassment if he/she happens to walk by someone's cube > and notices something offensive on someone else's computer... The issue is > when it goes too far and blocks perfectly valid sites like House of > Fusion. > I had replied earlier, but I think your best route is to ask them to log > an > exception for HOF. Even though there may be some "colorful" language on > this list, and sometimes on the CF-Talk list, the benefits far outweigh > the > occasional use of the non-FCC approved verbiage. > > Cheers, > > Jeff Garza > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 4:03 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Need justification to get House Of Fusion and Forta.com > unblocked at work > > yanno... that just does not seem like a sensible use of IT dollars to me. > But I am sure I am preaching to the already converted on that. > > On 9/2/06, Russel Madere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > They are relying on a service like websense and are globally blocking > > certain categories of cateloged sites. It is using a proxy and a > > third party database. > > > > On 9/2/06, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > have you ever asked a question here and gotten an answer? you might > > > show them a few examples of that. I would imagine that this would > > > help them > > see > > > the value of it. > > > > > > Exactly how are they blocking all forums and blogs, out of > > > curiosity? I only know how to block by ip address or by protocol. Do > > > they have a list they are getting from somewhere? > > > > > > > > > On 9/2/06, Russel Madere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > It looks like blogging and forum sites are blocked without regard > > > > to > > the > > > > content or subject. I need suggestions to use to get them > > > unblocked. The > > > > mailing lists and content are not "articulate enough" to use. > > > > > > > > Give me a few ideas I can pass on to the Networking group. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Russel Madere > > > > > > > > -------------------- > > > > Never Again! > > > > Rebuild New Orleans with Category 5 Protection > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:214849 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
