Firewall Funnie
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I use surfControl e-mail filter which has a range of editable dictionaries. Out of the box phrases include "chutney ferret" and "vertical bacon sandwich" the second phrase seems to have been removed from the latest upgrade. There are many more, which have had us rolling around the office in laughter, in a very sensible grown-up IT sort of way, of course!
Previously we used a different piece of software to do the same job. I returned from holiday to find no e-mail could leave the building. Reason: an upgrade had been carried out and a dictionary which prevents mails applying for jobs passing out of the building. Ok, makes sense I suppose, but blocking the phrase "CV" when your postcode starts CV37 is not very helpful, as everyone has it in their auto signature!
An urban myth (I assume) suggest that a similar problem was encountered on an e-mail system at scunthorpe council!
Jon H
>> Edited by jon h on Thursday 6th October 22:06
Previously we used a different piece of software to do the same job. I returned from holiday to find no e-mail could leave the building. Reason: an upgrade had been carried out and a dictionary which prevents mails applying for jobs passing out of the building. Ok, makes sense I suppose, but blocking the phrase "CV" when your postcode starts CV37 is not very helpful, as everyone has it in their auto signature!
An urban myth (I assume) suggest that a similar problem was encountered on an e-mail system at scunthorpe council!
Jon H
>> Edited by jon h on Thursday 6th October 22:06
jon h said:
An urban myth (I assume) suggest that a similar problem was encountered on an e-mail system at scunthorpe council!
Jon H
Not actually an urban myth - there were issues, but it was to do with a "NetNanny" type affair. Schools also had problems when searching for "Titanic" (tits, apparently!) and "Essex"...
A friend of a friend works for a magazine publishing company. Their content filtering software got updated earlier this week. There was hell to pay today when the staff couldn't access some of the websites for some of their magazines. The culprits were a slimming magazine website, which made reference to weight watchers (think about it), and another scunthorpe based rag. The management were not impressed. I nearly wet myself!
edited to add couldn't. doh.
>> Edited by jimmyjimjim on Thursday 6th October 22:34
edited to add couldn't. doh.
>> Edited by jimmyjimjim on Thursday 6th October 22:34
Podie said:
An urban myth (I assume) suggest that a similar problem was encountered on an e-mail system at scunthorpe council!
Jon H
Not actually an urban myth - there were issues, but it was to do with a "NetNanny" type affair. Schools also had problems when searching for "Titanic" (tits, apparently!) and "Essex"...
I installed a firewall at a school in Scunthorpe.... It's no urban myth, had to make some exceptions in the ruleset
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