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Date:      Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:35:49 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        Gregory Sutter <gsutter@mediacity.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: URL Based Filtering on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809281733380.6610-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <19980928150346.H29298@orcrist.mediacity.com>

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On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Gregory Sutter wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 08:45:43PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote:
> > Sigh.  Looks like Missouri is going to require that all K12 schools
> > eventually implement "web-filtering" sometime in the near future.  At
> > the moment we have a grant, with not much time left to use it, that will
> > let us buy what we need to do this.  I was _really really_ hoping that I
> > could find something that would work with FreeBSD (or BSDi, or Linux, or
> > Solaris/x86, but PLEASE for the love of god don't make me use NT!).  I
> 
> As ineffective (and wrong) as this is, there exist tools to do it.  I
> currently use an ad-blocker called Internet Junkbuster, by the anti-
> advertising group Junkbusters <http://www.junkbusters.org/>.  You could
> easily use that to do general web-filtering based on DNS or path name.
> 
> I see someone already pointed you to Peacefire; it's a good place. 
> Best of luck fighting this!

Thanks for the info.  I saw info on JunkBuster when I was looking
through the Squid pages.  Not sure if I want to fight all this just yet,
though.  I don't want to come off as some person who always goes against
the grain.  Everyone here is probably already sick of my Anti-Windows
talk.  :-)


-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
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