Sudhakar Chandrasekharan saw fit to inform LI that:
>> The best option should be to filter the tcp connection requiring destination
>> host port as 6667 or 7000.I know ipchains will help in this regard.I need your
That is one way. The other way is to look at your traffic logs
periodically and apply some (ahem) discipline on the skulls of people who
keep chatting contrary to college rules :)
If you have a router, you ~can~ block access to the common chat areas and
ICQ sites from your netblock (or hell, you can do that from your firewall
itself)
>You can never completely stop your users from using chat. If you block
>IRC, they will use some online java based chat. If you block that, they
>will use ICQ / AIM / Yahoo Pager to talk to friends.
If there is obscene content going through these
ICQ : notify [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AIM : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yahoo Pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and request them to cancel the account.
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Suresh Ramasubramanian + President, CAUCE India
http://india.cauce.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Within a computer, natural language is unnatural.
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