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This forum was blocked
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:30 am
by sea-nile
I just got back from a 2 day conference. I don't have a laptop so I went on one of the computers in the lobby to find that THIS forum was blocked because of sexual content, etc, blah, blah, blah....
really? hmmmm
But I could go on MySpace and Facebook and Yahoo and such.
I just fond that interesting- and frustrating!
Re: This forum was blocked
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:16 am
by Maggy
sea-nile wrote:I just got back from a 2 day conference. I don't have a laptop so I went on one of the computers in the lobby to find that THIS forum was blocked because of sexual content, etc, blah, blah, blah....
really? hmmmm
But I could go on MySpace and Facebook and Yahoo and such.
I just fond that interesting- and frustrating!
You have every reason to be upset and you should never go back to that place again, conference or not
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:45 am
by lprof
...what Maggy said...
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:47 am
by Anthony
I have heard of this happening a couple of times - I think the reason may be sloppy administration of a firewall - i.e. blocking a wide range of IPs that somehow include ours... anyway I am hoping that is the case!
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:51 am
by mbw1024
funny. I am able to get to it on my work computer and we have pretty strict firewall rules.
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:58 am
by Anthony
But probably a good sys admin.
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:59 am
by ifloat
The words "coconut bra" set off screeching alarms on smut censors in many civilized societies.
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:45 pm
by Joshie
...
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 1:20 pm
by jayseadee
Easily remedied with an iPhone
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:37 am
by Lulu76
I just want to know where this blocked sexual content is...
All I can find is some "food porn" and too many references to drinking!
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:42 am
by canucknyc
Could it be the word "virgin" in the address?
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:18 pm
by Lulu76
Yes, that's probably it.
I can just see Beverly's new tourism slogan now:
"Virgin Islands...like Fantasy Island, only different."
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:12 pm
by RickG
Hot... virgin... donkey... coconuts... in Love City.
Cheers, RickG
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:23 pm
by Anthony
canucknyc wrote:Could it be the word "virgin" in the address?
Seriously that could be it and that was what I meant by sloppy system administration. The person setting up the firewall may have added domains to block and used very broad keywords, like "virgin"...
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:38 pm
by LysaC
a few years back, i was serching for an image from "emmett otter's jugbanb christmas" (a muppet christmas movie) and my employer had it blocked for porn!!! i assume it was the "jug" in jugband. crazy stuff.