Do you want to block the web versions of these messenging systems or are you assuming they have downloaded and installed the clients?
John Yatsko, Jr. Technology Assistant Erie County Public Library 160 East Front St Erie PA 16507 (814) 451-7307 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Morris Maynard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Squidguard Org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 2:15 PM Subject: RE: Blocking Instant messaging > 1st, Chris, I'd rather you asked questions like this on the newsgroup. We > all benefit from the questions, even if they aren't answered. > > Squidguard can only block requests that are passed to it by squid. Thus, > this is more of a squid question than a squidguard one. The answer is that > IM protocols are very different from HTTP or FTP and so they are unlikely to > work if redirected through squid. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 11:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Blocking Instant messaging > > > Hi Morris do you know how I can use squidGuard to block instant messaging > services such as AOL instant messaging and MSN instant messaging ?? > > Thanks > > Chris McDermott >
