As pertains to the people who really need to do IRC, this is how we've
handled it. People who need to do IRC, as attested by their boss, have a
machine outside the firewall on which they do IRC, or they do it from an
unprotected Unix box (with ssh, icmplog, no telnet, etc.)
This solves a couple of problems. First, once the requirement is in place
that people have their boss's approval to use IRC, 95% of the requests
disappear, as does 40% of the whining. Second, it doesn't compromise
security. If they're just doing IRC, then they can usually be old
machines. Finally, for internal IRC, which some people use, we just throw
a standalone IRC server behind the firewall.
Problem solved. If it's only a few people, then finding some old 386's
and putting Linux/mirc on them should be a minimum of a financial burden,
as would putting 10 vt100s terminals off of a single 386. 8^)
Come on, by now you guys know I was going to get a mention of Linux in
_somewhere_.
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Todd Graham Lewis MindSpring Enterprises tlewis @
mindspring .
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