On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:39:13 +0530
"Binand Raj S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> This is always a bad idea. Think of all the companies that tried to market
> such a product, and ended up doing, among other things, blocking health
> information websites, blocking their own websites, blocking government
> web sites etc.
> 
> At IITB, they tried to block *sex* in the URL, and ended up blocking
> the University of Essex's website.

Very true! My inst. here uses a stupid squid proxy addon called
Squidguard...it filters out stuff pretty decently, to the extent not allowing
searches for "sex ratio" etc....I am sure there should be an extensible way
for excluding a combinations of words, but not in the case here.
 
> Set up proxy authentication, and inform your users that misuse will invite
> disciplinary action. Then monitor the logs, and build a case against them.
> Suspend Internet access for first time defaulters for say, 15 days.

Would it work in an engg college? you'd get beaten up, or at best verbally
abused.
> 
> > 3. How to monitor the internet sites visied through our proxy server? Is
> > there any graphical utility?
> 
> Well, squid's access logfile is the authoritative source. I believe
> webalizer can parse this logfile and give you graphical output.

Yes, as does a webmin module..



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