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List:       firewalls-gc
Subject:    Re: Internet policy
From:       Julian Assange <proff () suburbia ! net>
Date:       1996-09-17 15:22:42
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> On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 potlicker@morebbs.com wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Wankers PLC did a study of what their users are accessing during business
> > hours.   They found that 20 percent of all Internet access from their company
> > is viewing pornographic materials.   Now they are chewing their finger nails
> > and trying to decide who to blame.   The obvious approach would be to block
> > access to the porno sites on their firewalls.   How do other companies handle
> > this issue?


			    NNTPCACHE 0.92.7UL
		      (nntpcache-users@nntpcache.org)

[...]

nntpcache can also act selectively as an intelligent firewall NNTP
application proxy and supports full RFC931/ident & source address
and newsgroup access controls with quite a reasonable degree of
granularity.

nntpcache can perform sophisticated filtering based on weighted extended
regular expression pattern matching against article headers and content
on a per-user, per-group, per-host (etc) basis (so the filters only
effect particular user groups, not the entire population). This can be
used (for instance) as a kind of Usenet "net-nanny" or to transparently
remove a wide varity of parasitical SPAM (and probably a few not so nice
uses as well, like political censorship).

[...]

Full source archive:
	ftp://ftp.nntpcache.org/pub/nntpcache/nntpcache.tgz

[...]

--
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely  exercised for the good of its victims  
 may be the most  oppressive.  It may be better to live under  robber barons  
 than  under  omnipotent  moral busybodies,  The robber baron's  cruelty may  
 sometimes sleep,  his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who  
 torment us for own good  will torment us  without end,  for they do so with 
 the approval of their own conscience."    -   C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ 
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