How about just blocking the adds and replacing them with your own which are
cached locally. Like "Go do you're homework" :)
Have a look at
Ad zapping with squid
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/adzap/index.html
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 11:59:51AM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote:
> Hi,
> This is the scenario: High School (in Oz) with 900 students, we did not want
> the overhead of maintaining email for students so at first banned it altogether
> then allowed seniors only to use webmail (enforced by SQUID
> authentication). Now I am regretting that decision, at least 25% of my daily
> downloads are from webmail sites (mainly hotmail) ie all the advertising and
> images etc.
>
> What I am asking is....is the following a sensible, or achievable idea?
>
> Set up a webmail server in the school that students can join and which is
> accessible from the internet.....then I should be able to control all the
> garbage that goes with it. If it does not have all the whistles and bells of
> some systems, so be it. We would justify it only on educational grounds
> anyway, anything more than that then they can do it at home.
>
> Any advice comments etc appreciated, especially if someone has set one up
> in a similar circumstance.
>
> We are behind a series of firewalls, running 24/7 but only on a 56k link.
>
> Cheers,
>
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