Hi Aaron, I know how you feel about the censorship thing but schools are required to filter in order to receive certain types of federal funding. The law is called "Childrens Internet Protection Act" aka CIPA. It is because of that that I explored things like DansGuardian and SquidGuard.
Dave Dave David Tisdell. Music Teacher Browns River Middle School 20 River Road Jericho, VT 05465 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (e-mail) This e-mail may contain information protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). If this e-mail contains student information and you are not entitled to access such information under FERPA, please notify the sender. Federal regulations require that you destroy this e-mail without reviewing it and you may not forward it to anyone. >>> "Aaron S. Hawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/21/2008 4:02 PM >>> Yeah, Dan's Guardian is pretty good -- for a censorship machine! I always feel strange endorsing one. There's something especially nice about having the code to these types of systems be free software rather than proprietary, though. Concerning Active Directory, I recall that Dan's has NTLM support, or some such. On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Bjorn Behrendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For content Filtering, firewall, spam, and security in general Take a look > at http://www.untangle.com/. We paid for the supported version at proctor > to get some extra Active Directory integration. But the OpenSource version > of Untangle is defiantly worth a look. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Tisdell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:29:53 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: FOSS and Ubuntu at NPA in Burlington > > Hi Terry, > > In most situations, content filtering is a network function (at the > internet gateway); not a client side function. DansGuardian is > opensource and does an awesome job. It could be run on the client side > but would create a lot of unnecessary overhead. The board member needs > to be educated. It is a nonissue; especially in Burlington. I know > several of the IT people. They do not do client side filtering.They do > Internet Gateway filtering. The only schools that might still be doing > client side filtering are very small and don't have adequate support to > setup network filtering. > > Dave
