On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:36:17PM +1100, Kevin FItzgerald wrote:
> Hi All
Hi there,
> [....] What i would like
> is recommendations of filtering software that I can put on the RH8
> server to block access to Porn etc (Being a church this is very
> important). Can anyone suggest a Linux Equivalent to products like
> Net Nanny etc?
The obvious choice is SquidGuard (www.squidguard.org), they say:
http://www.squidguard.org/intro/
**) squidGuard is not a porn or banner filter/blocker, but it is very
well suited for these purposes too.
and:
http://www.squidguard.org/config/
* There is a rich set of sample files for a group of supposedly
pornographic sites under samples/dest/adult in the source tree
that you can use as a start if porn blocking is one of your tasks.
Please note: We recommend that you review these lists before using
them. Those domains and urls have been collected automagically by
a robot. No manual evaluation of the corresponding contents has
been performed. Therefor there is a chance some nonpornographic
sites have sliped in. Please report such errors but don't blame us
if your fine site is on the list. (Blame those who have pointers
to appropriate sites mixed in on their heavy porn link pages!)
NB: Pr0n filtering is *never* 100% effective.
Also note that a large amount of Pr0n arrives as spam, so you'll
probably be wanting to install SpamAssassin if you're serving email
locally.
Of course, then you've got the "problem" of Hotmail, etc.
Personally I think the solution is education, not blocking, especially
as blocking software has an atrocious record of overblocking and
censoring non-Pr0n sites...
Chris
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