Does anyone else share the opinion that this,
>"The reports were made available weekly to the employee's management as
well as the employee..."
should be done only in cases where an employee continues to abuse the
system? I believe that after a somewhat personalized report...
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[insert name here],
In order to insure that corporate resources are used appropriately,
Internet traffic is now being monitored. System administration has
observed you connecting to the following World Wide Web and other
Internet servers:
http://www.blahblahblah.com/...
http://www.nlanr.net/Squid...
..
While [insert company name here] promotes the use of the Internet as an
information source, [insert company policy here]
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and a few follow-up reports (wording slightly changed) are sent, a
significant amount of the traffic would cease without causing
embarrassing situations for employees or adding to the list of things to
do for managers except in extreme cases.
I understand that the systems belong to the company, and that the company
is entitled to do as it pleases with its policy (within legal limits :)
when employees are misusing resources; however, the objective is to stop
the abuse of the system, not start unnecessary battles within the
company.
Kris Bravo
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From: Kent Landfield [SMTP:firewalls-owner @
GreatCircle .
COM]
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 1996 1:58 PM
To: Michael Dillon
Cc: firewalls
Subject: Re: Internet policy
#
# On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 potlicker @
morebbs .
com wrote:
#
# > Wankers PLC did a study of what their users are accessing during
business
# > hours. They found that 20 percent of all Internet access from their
company
# > is viewing pornographic materials. Now they are chewing their
finger
nails
# > and trying to decide who to blame. The obvious approach would be to
block
# > access to the porno sites on their firewalls. How do other
companies
handle
# > this issue?
#
# Don't block anything. Just take the log of www accesses and generate
# reports for each user on which sites they accessed and email the report
to
# the user every day. This works best if the logs have the complete URL
such
# as the logs generated by Squid http://www.nlanr.net/Squid
#
# Somehow I think that accesses to pornography sites will drop
dramatically.
One customer of mine did just this. The reports were made available
weekly
to the employee's management as well as the employee. Poronographic
material
was not the only reason for doing this. People were spending a good deal
of
time on sports, game and news related sites that had little to do with
the
organization's actual work. Didn't take long for most of the non-work
related surfing to stop during business hours (which was what the company
was trying to achieve).
--
Kent Landfield Phone: 1-817-545-2502
The Landfield Group FAX: 1-817-545-7650
Email: kent @
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com http://www.landfield.com/
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