Re: IRC-based Olympic Coverage

From: Charles Newman (charlesnewman1_at_comcast.net.spammers.will.be.shot.on.sight)
Date: 11/27/04

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    "Greg Hennessy" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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    > On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:29:50 -0800, "Charles Newman"
    > <charlesnewman1@comcast.net.spammers.will.be.shot.on.sight> wrote:
    >
    >
    > >
    > > Well, Unix/Linux cannot do content filtering,
    >
    > ROTFL! That statement is so profoundly incorrect it would be funny if you
    > weren't serious.
    >
    > >which
    > >is why nearly every corporate network in existance
    > >uses a Windows server.
    >
    > Not as Internet facing firewalls they don't and before you bull***
    > further, ones bona fides in this neck of the woods are a tad more tangible
    > than thine.
    >
    > > Content filtering is not
    > >availale on Unix/Linux systems.
    >
    > Saying it a 2nd time doesn't make it so either.
    >
    > >I have had a lot of
    > >accounting and financial courses, and I have been
    > >taught to think of things from a cost standpoint.
    >
    > Hmmm, the postal diahorrea is flowing.
    >
    > >In the long run, any company planning a network
    > >of 254 machines or less would be better off
    > >financially using an ICS-based solution.
    >
    > While ICS has its place, you are too uninformed to realise that other
    > better alternatives exist, including ones on win32.

         I am also an astronomy buff, and hope to be able
    to build and open my own observatory some day.
    If and when that day comes, all the observatory's
    computers will be connected to the Internet
    through either ICS, ProxyPro, Wingate, AllegroSurf,
    or some other third-party NAT software. Firewall
    will be Kerio/Tiny. Content filtering will be done
    by Cybersitter, Cyber Patrol, or one of the other
    many off-the-shelf filtering programs on the market.
        If figure that if and when I get to build my
    observatory someday, that network would consist
    of maybe around 25 to 30 computers. Why would I
    waste money buying a hardware appliance, when I
    could use ICS, which could handle a network of 25 to
    30 computers quite well? I could slap any off-the-shelf
    filtering program on the ICS machine, and be able to
    filter out inappropriate Web sites on the ICS machine.
    I would never be able to do that with a hardware
    appliance. Also, one anti-spam program, SpamBam
    can also act as a proxy on the network and filter out
    spam email at the server level, before it could ever
    reach users' inboxes. Sorry, but your hardware
    appliances cannot do that yet. You just simply
    configure SpamBam to filter everything between your
    users, and your ISP's mail server, and it will
    elminate spam and it will never reach users'
    inboxes. Tiny Firewall also lets you do real
    time monitoring that your hardware
    appliances cannot do.
       For the typical setup the observatory I would
    like to build someday would have, maybe
    around 30 computers, ICS, or some other
    software solution would make more sense
    than using a hardware appliance.

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