Chat Rooms (Policy)

[Elisabeth Roche]

The person to ask about this issue is Joel Snyder at http://opus1.com

He is a preeminent Internet and Telecommunications expert who has dealt
with all these problems in detail, besides fixing up the White House
e-mail security system and wiring the USSR (yes back when it was the
USSR) as well as other countries and companies.

If there is a consensus on what the question is I would be happy to ask
him, or you can e-mail him directly, go to the web site for the info.

He is a prince!

Cordially,

Elisabeth Roche Roche Internet Resources and Research Tucson, AZ
eroche at opus1.com or eroche at sisnaaz.com
serendipity RULES!


Mallika Pichumani wrote:
> 
> It would be really useful to know (with all the discussion about chat
> policy) just what measures (technical and policy-wise) sites use to ban
> chat outright. It sounds to me that some sites do this only as a matter of
> policy, i.e. putting up signs that say 'no chat' and some sites do this
> technically as well (not permitting IRC clients to run etc.). It also
> seems to depend on your environment (NT or Win95) whether you can filter
> all chat. It seems that filtering software prohibits chat based on URLs;
> though you can also ban the IRC ports themselves. But web-based chat is
> still an issue - unless you disable java, there seems to be no way to
> avoid this, unless you've got some strict firewall set up. Any ideas?
> 
> --Mallika
> 
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