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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:22 AM, <emailjp79@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Michael [19.Nov.2008 16:07]: |
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>> On 10:05 Wed 19 Nov , Qian Qiao wrote: |
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>>> In that case, isn't putting |
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>>> 127.0.0.1 ADDRESSES_TO_BE_BLOCKED |
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>>> into /etc/hosts easier? |
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>>> Or just set up a proxy. |
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>> No, perhaps not, considering the fact that there are so many sites with |
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>> pron. Maintaining such a massive hosts file is a disaster and worse still |
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>> the solution is not fullproof. But then, FWIW such problems seldom have |
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>> foolproof solutions. |
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> Well, at least there is "mvps" [1] with a nice host-file, blocking |
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> mostly ads, banners etc., which I use myself without much trouble. |
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> While searching for a list of porn-sites to add to that list, I stumbled |
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> upon BadHosts [2], which includes several hosts-files, one of them |
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> entirely for porn-sites. |
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> The sites listed there might get you started, but as noted by Qian Qiao |
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> before, that list will never be complete or up-to-date. Besides, using |
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> an anonymizer to reach one of those sites will get you there anyway. You |
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> would have to block those, too. |
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> My opinion: If children are to be "protected" from that kind of content, |
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> seting up a public computer in a livingroom might be a better way (in |
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> conjunction with a host-file maybe for those nasty ads). But as soon as |
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> one starts blocking sites, the question will be where to stop. |
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> JP |
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Thanks to all that have answered. I appreciate the responses greatly. |
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Indeed the question was based around what to do with a kid that's not |
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using his computer time appropriately. It has nothing to do with |
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'protecting' him via censoring or anything like that. It was more a |
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matter of should he be playing Flash games or playing online videos of |
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Star Craft games when he has homework to be doing. After thinking |
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about it the decision in the end was to do nothing technical. Nothing |
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technical is going to fix this problem other than him growing up a |
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bit. |
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Thanks again, |
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Mark |