Good point.  Schools are a slightly different case since you are expected to
act in loco parentis, and you can't just toss the miscreants out.  4/5 of
the folks in NLUG probably fell into the miscreant category back in school.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Douglass Clem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> I completely agree that it tends to be rather useless to try to use
> technology to solve a problem that has it's roots in human behavior. In this
> particular case, the idea was to gather some solid evidence prior to
> confronting the employee. However, other HR issues have come up with this
> employee that dwarf the issue of spending too much time browsing the web.
>
> I probably will install Surftrackr before long anyways, as this is a school
> setting. We are already using OpenDNS for content filtering, but students
> still occasionally (about once a week) find unblocked sites that they should
> not have access to. If we were able to track a student's web usage, we would
> be able to confront them about such issues, which in turn would make them
> less likely to look for such holes in the filtering system.
>
>
> Douglass Clem
> crashsystems.net
> Public Key: http://crashsystems.net/pubkey.asc
>
> >
>

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