Hi Alan,

Tuesday, June 27, 2006, 3:02:02 AM, you wrote:

>>> That was my thought as well. With a bit of web programming on it they could
>>> even update the white and black lists themselves, and have a means of
>>> sending updates around the other similar machines at the other communities,
>>> possibly by email or some form of auto-update.
>>
>> This sounds good - but I'd have some learning to do. I still don't
>> have the big picture yet - how do I get the colonies to access that
>> gateway - and no other? I'll do some more searching.

> My thought was that each colony would have its own gateway - I think that is
> going to be the only way you are going to get the filtering you are after,
> just as each company has their own firewall. A firewall type arrangement is
> effectively what you are setting up.

> Then each gateway connects to a convenient ISP, be it satellite, cable or
> dialup. You then arrange a convenient way of communicating your black and
> white list changes between gateways. This could be as simple as an email
> message to the gateway maintainers to say you have found a certain website
> to be suitable or unsuitable, and they manually update their lists as
> appropriate, to a fully fledged automatic update between gateways, although
> this latter method could result in one community setting a site to the white
> list, while another community sets the same site to the blacklist, and the
> automatic update results in confusion.

Okay, now I get it. Thanks for the description. The picture is falling
into place.

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Best regards,
Patrick Murphy
James Valley Colony
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