The stake president approved the internet connection. It will be for one computer only, in the stake clerk's office, for the exclusive use of preparing online missionary documents.
I will try to see if setting the browser on proxy, port 80 works this Sunday. If not, I have received an offer for a discounted connection ($10 / year) from a local ISP in Orem. They are willing to discount heavily since its a church connection. On 1/20/06, MT Morales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -------------------- 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
