This is the first year I have had any filtering. I bought the box to
help with bandwidth management (and it does this well), and since
filtering is built in, I turned it on. I have only had three requests
for sites to be unblocked to date, so I think the blocking is working
well for our school. (I remember a decade ago adding a filter and what
a nightmare it was. This has been so easy it is scary.)
Here are the categories:
Adult
Dating
Filter Avoidance (e.g. proxies)
Gambling
Instant Messaging (this is unblocked for teachers and admin)
Non-Sexual Nudity
Peer File Transfer
Porn
Renee Ramig
Seven Hills School
> From: Luke Michael <lukemichael@thefirstacademy.org>
> Reply-To: A forum for independent school educators
<ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:48:52 -0400
> To: <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> Subject: Re: content filter policy
>=20
> We are using Websense along with a Sonic firewall appliance. We too
are
> trying to create a filtering policy as to what categories are
> blocked/unblocked, both for Students and Employees. I would be
> interested to see what other schools are doing as well.
>=20
> Luke=20
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