Just a suggestion, when you whitelist a good education site, submit it the entire Netspace ISP network and not just your own school campus so that everybody benefits. If you are not sure how to do this, ask your tech or drop Netspace a line.<br>
<br>Remember many years ago in the age of BG when Yahoo was a hand-compiled index? I recall somebody saying over a beer that these lists are compiled by two USA based groups (Florida / Utah) that have a rather interesting way of viewing the web using a mix of robots (to score game / chat / gambling sites) whilst others have to manually hunt for odd body parts amongst the images. The thought was that ISPs and services such as <a href="http://OpenDNS.org">http://OpenDNS.org</a> purchase these lists as nobody has
the time to systematically compile it themselves. At least we are free to collectively whitelist the good stuff that we run into.<br><br>Whilst it is easy to poke fun at Conroy, a rather scarey thought is who compiled his black list and are they Australian? How do we reconcile and recompense the long-term moral damage that just compiling the list will inflict upon the censors? Lastly, does wearing special glasses with red and blue filters really help?<br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 July 2010 08:38, Laurie Savage <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au">sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just a brief off-topic question. Has anybody had a
trouble-free changeover to Netspace? Ours has been horrific. I sent my students
off to <a href="http://devzone.zend.com" target="_blank">devzone.zend.com</a> to look at some of the great tutorials there (<a href="http://devzone.zend.com/article/627" target="_blank">devzone.zend.com/article/627</a>)
and access was denied because the web-site’s content was deemed
“inappropriate: contains computing and IT chat”! That’s
almost as good as the time our filters denied access to the Vatican’s Art
Gallery because it contained “Nudity, Lingerie and Profanity”. Roll
on Conroy’s firewall!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We did fix it.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Laurie Savage</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pascoe Vale Girls College</p>
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