This discussion reminds me of a popular quote I see all the time on another forum: "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." --attributed to Ed Crowley, Compaq Technical Consultant
A friend of mine worked for a company that had a problem with a certain spammer. They blocked the IP address of the offending emailer at the gateway, and to their utter astonishment, the pernicious perpetrator changed its IP. The spam continued to flow. Eventually, after about 9 IPs were entered into the "deny" access-list, the legitmate email started having problems (the spammer seemed to have been stopped).+ Long story, short: The spammer was using the company's ISP's mail relay host addresses. By shutting down those IPs, they effectively shut down their Intenet mail service. --John -----Original Message----- From: Gaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to block MSN, and others. [7:31057] I suppose it comes down to they type of company/employees. I'm more used to companies that leave things fairly open for employees, and demand (rather than expect) that the employee be responsible with it. Employees will understand that monitoring needs to be done at times and offenders be dealt with. "Firm and fair" sometimes works better than "beat me if you can". Not always though, so admittedly it's horses for courses. Gaz ""Mike Sweeney"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Let me put something into perspective here. It was said earlier about why > give access then block it. Why indeed... the why is for BUSINESS reasons.. > not day trading, not stock tickers, not chatting for hours(documented) with > friends at the expense of work, viruses coming in on Hotmail attachments > that bypass the clamped down exchange server and so on. > > The internet is given to employees for business reasons with the expectation > that the employee will be responsible with it. Will there be personal use.. > of course.. just like the phone. Why limit certain things? gee.. the company > pays for a T1, they have 4,000 users, 100 decide to watch a Victoria Secret > webcast at 300Kbps.. see the problem? This not theorical.. this really > happened to one of my clients and the webcastusers/readaudio users managed > to max out the T during working hours. > > The courts have already decided for good or bad that email is company > property and they can do what they wish with it. I would imagine that web > access falls under the same rules as it's a company building, desk, PC(or > Mac), servers, connection and so on. > > My opinion > > MikeS Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=31155&t=31057 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]