Death Threat Woes

Vladislav S. Davidzon davidzon at metronet.lib.mi.us
Wed Oct 29 12:13:01 EST 1997


Our version of cyberpatrol has a irc "none" options... I strongly suspect
it does not filter as well as it should, but I have not tested it.

Let me check into this...

On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Michael Dargan wrote:

> Vladislav--
> 
> > We do not allow IRC or other chat rooms from our J-Dept machines.
> > CyberPatrol allows blocking of such, plus fortress protects (to an extent) 
> > against people downloading / installing software including IRC clients.
> 
> How does Cyber Patrol keep people off of chat rooms?  Do you have to 
> identify all the sites and manually diable access?  Do you subscribe?  
> 
> At least one of our librarians has suggested banning chat rooms and 
> enforcing it by "cuffing them around a bit."  However, I suspect there's 
> be an investigation.
> 



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