>From: dcostello @
cmol .
com
>Date: Fri, 19 Sep 97 09:42:20 -0500
>
>Thanks to everyone for the info on the PointCast port id. Since it uses port
>80, like http, how do I get rid of it without getting rid of www access? We've
>already told people not to use it but you know how users are.
>
>Dave
>
>
>
Dave -
Other than actually removing it from every workstation, and enforcing a
policy that the next one to load pointcast gets fired, consider getting
a pointcast server. Install it in your network, define what is business
relevant, use it to diseminate corporate info. What happens is that in
concert with pointcast, any requests from your address space get a redirect
statement back from pointcast that reconfigures the pointcast client to
point to your pointcast server. from then on, the client goes there.
Another choice if you are not running a web proxy is to do ip filtering
in your router to block access to pointcast. If you are running a proxy,
then the proxy can also do host blocking to pointcast address space.
When the pointcast server was first proposed here, I was rather leary, but
it seems to be working out well, especially as an internal bulletin board.
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