On Saturday 26 July 2003 19.35, Antony Stone wrote: > I agree, but I don't really see how this sort of classification is > useful?
Because as you pointed out the world of web content is not black/white as the case of RBL. Because of this different administrative policies needs to be applied at differetnt locations, and these policies are most easily built based on categories of content, where the database is just used to distribute the classification. > I assumed the whole point of the idea was to be able to identify > sites carrying pornography, jokes, religious views, anarchist > material, pirated music, copied software etc? Yes, and to set a policy depending on the content, primarily to administrativel block content seen as unacceptable to the local policy. Simply put, if you do not accept porn then set access controls in your proxy to deny access to content classified as porn. The key of the database is to give classifications of content, not to block content. Blocking of content is an application of the database. Another perhaps as interesing application is statistics to view what kind of sites the users are visiting, without actually blocking anything (or at least not all..). Regards Henrik -- Donations welcome if you consider my Free Squid support helpful. https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=hno%40squid-cache.org If you need commercial Squid support or cost effective Squid or firewall appliances please refer to MARA Systems AB, Sweden http://www.marasystems.com/, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
