[Novalug] limiting web email access

[Dave Ashby]

Megan-
Maybe a previous poster mentioned it and I didn't catch it in the 
thread, but DansGuardian [1] is the obvious way to accomplish this.
-dave

[1] http://dansguardian.org/

C Megan Larko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had an interestng discussion with another linux person at my church 
> this evening.   He said that he is looking for a way in which to limit 
> internet access at his home to web email preferences.   The goal is to
> limit the young people in his house from getting something like  a gmail
> or a hotmail account potentially communicating with someone unknown to
> the parents (young people currently between ages of 7 and 11).  He could
> try to web-blacklist all gmail.google.com and similar sites.  He was
> musing as to whether there was some sort of signature that could be
> blocked in the web filter or iptable set up.   I couldn't think of 
> any distinct signature other than perhaps the string "mail" in the 
> title line.   I don't think "mail" is necessarily in the meta data.
> I am curious, especially you parents on the List, how would you 
> approach this question of limiting access to web email pages on 
> your home network?
>
> Take care!
> megan
>
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