Re: [K12OSN] student e-mail accounts
Barry Smoke (bsmoke@bryant.dsc.k12.ar.us)
06 Aug 2002 10:01:31 -0500
What system is doing this filtering for you?
On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 00:06, Eric Harrison wrote:
> On 5 Aug 2002, Barry Smoke wrote:
>
> >We use qmail, and are considering setting up student e-mail accounts.
> >Is anyone else using student e-mail accounts, and are you
> >scanning/filtering those?
> >
> >I have an idea of using a vmailmgr virtual domain, and call it
> >students.bryantar.net, and letting students have an e-mail address like
> >studentname@student.bryantar.net
> >that way, I can filter/monitor/scan those accounts only, and allow
> >faculty the freedom of anonymity.
> >
> >Now, I know this may get into some 1st amendment issues, but let's not
> >get into that....we can handle all of that with handbook amendments,
> >along the lines of...
> >
> >"you are being given this account as a privilege...abuse it, and lose
> >it, and yes we are watching you"
> >
> >We are already scanning for viruses, and use the QMAILQUEUE variable...
> >and we are using qmail-scanner, so we should be able to use it's conent
> >filtering capabilities...
> >
> >is anyone else doing this in another manner...?
>
> I'm doing some global content filtering. It's not so much as to make sure
> the kids aren't using dirty words and so on, but to filter out some of the
> more troublesome and tricky porn-site advertisements we get hit with from
> time-to-time.
>
> For my domains only, I also strip out all attachments that have known
> scurity problems (.exe, .pif, .scr, .bat, etc, etc). We made the
> administrative decision that the email system is not the appropriate
> medium for exchanging executables. This fixes a *HUGE* percentage of
> our virus woes.
>
> -Eric
>
>
>
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