Re: email block



On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:18:35 -0500, "Andrew Chaplin"
<ab.chaplin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>When I was in NDHQ we had two computers on our floor of the North
>Tower that had access to the WWW, all the rest (about 50) were on the
>DWAN. The two computers on the web were for look-ups and so forth, but
>during lunch most of us checked our hotmail or, in my case, dejanews.
>The IT mob did not have any grief with it.

we worry about it more these days, A number of clients have
requested all www access to be blocked. It stops the spyware,
aka toolbars, screen savers tome synchronisers etc that bugger up
machines.
--
Jim Watt
http://www.gibnet.com
.



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