Yeah, Dan's Guardian is pretty good -- for a censorship machine!  I
always feel strange endorsing one.  There's something especially nice
about having the code to these types of systems be free software
rather than proprietary, though.

Concerning Active Directory, I recall that Dan's has NTLM support, or some such.

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Bjorn Behrendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For content Filtering, firewall, spam, and security in general Take a look
> at http://www.untangle.com/.   We paid for the supported version at proctor
> to get some extra Active Directory integration.   But the OpenSource version
> of Untangle is defiantly worth a look.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Tisdell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:29:53 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: FOSS and Ubuntu at NPA in Burlington
>
> Hi  Terry,
>
> In most situations, content filtering is a network function (at the
> internet gateway); not a client side function. DansGuardian is
> opensource and does an awesome job. It could be run on the client side
> but would create a lot of unnecessary overhead. The board member needs
> to be educated. It is a nonissue; especially in Burlington. I know
> several of the IT people. They do not do client side filtering.They do
> Internet Gateway filtering. The only schools that might still be doing
> client side filtering are very small and don't have adequate support to
> setup network filtering.
>
> Dave

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