On 1/20/06, Brian Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The only broandband connections at meetinghouses I know are for > > geneology centers, the rest have to receive special approval from > > Church headquarters; or be part of a new pilot program. > > > > If nobody else has done it yet, I will try accessing church sites > > from a web browser tonight while connected through MLS and see how it > > goes. > > > > -mtm > > Make sure you put your proxy settings to > > INETPROXY on port 80 > > I was speaking with a church network guru and he says theoretically, that > should work. > > After seeing this all come through I realized my knowledge of the > meetinghouses connection was lacking and so I had a lengthy conversation > with him. A few other points he brought up. He affirmed what you said > about stake centers with geneology departments being the only one with a > broadband connection. Regular meetinghouses dial-up through MCI to the > MLS > system. The MLS system is connected to the church network and > communicates > on various ports, but he doesn't know if port 80 is one of them or > not. If > it's not blocked, setting your browser settings will allow you to go > through > MLS to the church and then back out to the internet with all of it's web > content filtered by the church's proxy. > > He also went into a schpeel about how if the meetinghouse needs an > internet > connection, send a well-drafted message to the MLS department because they > are the only ones stopping meetinghouses from all having broadband > connections. > > He then finished it up by telling me that it is against church policy to > have an internet connection in a meetinghouse. Exceptions to the policy > are > decided by the Stake President. (If he says do it...do it.) > > Now that we have successfully turned the UUG mailling list into the church > policy mailling list...I'll be done now :D > > Brian > > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >
That's good, thanks for sharing that information. I'm sure some of us in the list can benefit from it. I'll post my results tonight. Also, if you haven't done so yet, as stake computer specialist, you are entitled to request (or create) an MLS account(with some level of access) for yourself on the stake computer. Done for now too ;-) -mtm -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
