[6929] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Rating System for WWW Pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Carlton)
Sun Dec 4 07:31:31 1994
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 13:08:02 +0100
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From: Will Carlton <wcarlton@gtenet.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
We had a problem with some people downloading porn stuff with company
workstations during business hours which was (in political terms) "an
invalid use of company resources". What we did was set up a proxy
that would pass only certain sites which were "pre-approved for business
reasons". Since all workstations are behind a firewall, this seemed to
be an easy (but imperfect) solution.
I know this goes against the grain of many people, but we found that certain
people were just using the Web for strictly non-business/research purposes
and were becoming massively unproductive from a business perspective. I
think that the politics are going to change back to a more open policy
(which would be good IMHO), but a proxy configuration seems to do what you
desire.
Will
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