Parental Control

[Gary Thornock]

I don't know of a hardware-based system that does what you want, but
I've been pretty pleased thus far with DansGuardian
(www.dansguardian.org) which I'm running as a transparent proxy on my
firewall/NAT box.  There's also a paid version available for use with
SmoothWall, if you go that way.

--- Jesse Stay <jesse at cwdkids.com> wrote:
> I've got a couple of questions about parental control.  First of
> all, does anyone know if the LDS church has in its plans a program
> to offer free parental control software or proxy services so that
> members and non-members can easily keep offensive websites and
> other material out of their homes?  I've always thought this would
> be a useful thing if the church offered it - also a useful
> missionary tool.  If not, perhaps some of you who lurk the list who
> work at Church Offices can put in a good word for me. ;-)
> 
> Secondly, does anyone know of any good hardware-solutions for
> parental control that stand between your computer and the internet
> to filter out offensive content?  I was thinking of something that
> could dynamically download updates from the web, etc.
> 
> I'd be interested to see everyone's input in these matters.
> 
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> Jesse Stay
> MIS and Web Manager
> Children's Wear Digest
> http://www.cwdkids.com 
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