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 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
