This is especially funny considering the current Dilbert cartoon series. The corporate spam filter has taken over running the company, and has decided to build an army of killer robots. New org chart has one of the engineers reporting to the microwave oven. --Don Ellis
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Craig Tatham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Smartfilter blocks solely on URL. So the pages content didn't get flagged > for profanity, but the general site had been. > They have a URL checker here: http://www.trustedsource.org/urlcheck/ > > I just checked "http://theonion.com"; and it has been classified as both > "humor/comics" and "profanity" so I was pretty close on my guesses before. > > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> Thanks for the details, Craig. >> >> I also had a look through Secure Computing's wikipedia page[1] and a >> more general category[2]. From what that says and from what you >> describe, it appears that SmartFilter allows/blocks content based >> solely on URL. Is that correct? Or does SmartFilter do on-the-fly >> content filtering also? >> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Computing >> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-control_software >> >> Regards, >> - Robert >> >> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Craig Tatham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Work is using a service called Smartfilter from Secure Computing. It >> > categorizes mostly by site but does both site and IP address. It also >> > categorizes by sections of sites but not necessarily individual pages. >> Also, >> > each site may have up to three categories. >> > For example (and this is just hypothetical) >> > http://theonion.com may be categorized as news, humor, profanity >> > http://theonion.com/downloads/ may be categorized as media downloads >> > http://theonion.com/article/nastymalware.aspx might be catagorized as >> > malicous/malware >> > We may block profanity and malware so we would block two of the three >> sites >> > above even though we allow news and humor (as examples). >> > Hope that helps. >> >> >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
