[WEB4LIB] RE: internet access and games

[Dan Lester]

Friday, August 18, 2000, 10:10:26 AM, you wrote:

MM> If you have unlimited Internet access at your library, as we
MM> do, you'll know that no matter what you do to block things, somehow they
MM> find a way around it anyway.

Whether you SHOULD block anything or not is a political, operational,
and policy issue.  However, if one decides to block it is easy to do.
I manage a shared blacklist of web email, game, and chat sites at
http://www.riverofdata.com/tools/   From that page you can see the
actual blacklist or a paper on how to do the blocking with a proxy
server.  Yes, new sites keep popping up, but it is easy to add them to
the list.  A number of other libraries contribute to the list.

cheers

dan

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