Limiting browsers to sites

[Sharon Centanne]

Hi Stacey!

Have you considered setting up a proxy server that only allows certain sites?
The user connects to the proxy and if the proxy disallows a site, the user can
not access it.  You have to lock your browser preferences tho, so that the user
can't put anything in the exceptions folder.  Good luck and please let us know
what works!

Sharon Centanne
At 10:01 AM 12/20/97 -0800, you wrote:
>We want to limit certain of our public computers to browsing our
>catalog and specific web-based periodical indexes.  
>
>I know that some of the filter products (Net Nanny, for example)
>claim they will do this.  Has anyone evaluated the filters for THIS
>use.  We're not interested in using them for their more common claim
>to fame - blocking sites they consider objectionable.  But from what
>I could tell on the TIFAP page, they were not assessed for this 
>particular use.
>
>Can anyone point me to reviews of filters that assess their ability to
>limit users in this way (not to a list of 'family-friendly' sites but
>to sites that WE choose.)  Or is there some other type of software that
>could do this for us?  (And which might be cheaper than the filters.)
>
>I'm sure there are sites doing this.  Please share what you find worked
>well - or poorly.
>
>TIA
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