Simple as logging in to fill out a web form. Just takes a few min to activate. Easy peasy .. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 July 2010 20:14, Laurie Savage <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au">sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">I thought that the process of opening a site through Netspace necessitated<br>
contacting them centrally. If that is not the case then I certainly will<br>
suggest to our techs that they do that in future.<br>
<br>
Laurie<br>
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Just recently, on Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:53:46PM +1000 in fact, Roland Gesthuizen mentioned:<br>
<div class="im">> Just a suggestion, when you whitelist a good education site, submit it the<br>
> entire Netspace ISP network and not just your own school campus so that<br>
> everybody benefits. If you are not sure how to do this, ask your tech or<br>
> drop Netspace a line.<br>
><br>
> Remember many years ago in the age of BG when Yahoo was a hand-compiled<br>
> index? I recall somebody saying over a beer that these lists are compiled by<br>
> two USA based groups (Florida / Utah) that have a rather interesting way of<br>
> viewing the web using a mix of robots (to score game / chat / gambling<br>
> sites) whilst others have to manually hunt for odd body parts amongst the<br>
> images. The thought was that ISPs and services such as<br>
</div>> <a href="http://OpenDNS.orgpurchase" target="_blank">http://OpenDNS.orgpurchase</a> these lists as nobody has the time to<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> systematically compile it<br>
> themselves. At least we are free to collectively whitelist the good stuff<br>
> that we run into.<br>
><br>
> Whilst it is easy to poke fun at Conroy, a rather scarey thought is who<br>
> compiled his black list and are they Australian? How do we reconcile and<br>
> recompense the long-term moral damage that just compiling the list will<br>
> inflict upon the censors? Lastly, does wearing special glasses with red and<br>
> blue filters really help?<br>
><br>
> Regards Roland<br>
><br>
> On 14 July 2010 08:38, Laurie Savage <<a href="mailto:sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au">sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > Just a brief off-topic question. Has anybody had a trouble-free<br>
> > changeover to Netspace? Ours has been horrific. I sent my students off to<br>
> > <a href="http://devzone.zend.com" target="_blank">devzone.zend.com</a> to look at some of the great tutorials there (<br>
> > <a href="http://devzone.zend.com/article/627" target="_blank">devzone.zend.com/article/627</a>) and access was denied because the web-site’s<br>
> > content was deemed “inappropriate: contains computing and IT chat”! That’s<br>
> > almost as good as the time our filters denied access to the Vatican’s Art<br>
> > Gallery because it contained “Nudity, Lingerie and Profanity”. Roll on<br>
> > Conroy’s firewall!<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > We did fix it.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Laurie Savage<br>
> ><br>
> > Pascoe Vale Girls College<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
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</div></div><div class="im">Laurie Savage<br>
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</div>A few hours grace before the madness begins again.<br>
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