[squid-users] web filtering

Our experience with web filtering is the differences
in tools are _completely_ swamped by the quality and
depth of the blacklists. (The reverse of course is
also true: lack of good blacklists will doom_any_
filtering tool.)

We currently have over 500,000 (!) sites listed in
just the porn section of our blacklist. With quality
lists like these, any old tool will do a decent job.

Lots of folks need to get such lists reasonably and
regularly (quarterly?). Useful lists are far far too
large to be maintained by local staff. Probably what's
needed is a mechanism whereby everybody nationwide
contributes, some central site consolidates and
sanitizes, and then publishes the lists.

This would be a huge effort. It's not easily possible
even with lots of clever scripts and plenty of compute
power. We've already seen more than a handful of
"volunteers" swallowed up by similar efforts.

thanks!
-Chuck Kollars

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Received on Fri Sep 29 2006 - 21:11:26 MDT