[NTLUG:Discuss] proxy

[Matt Moore]

> > It's common for a business to limit Internet access for empoyees.  
> 
> Is it?  My employer has enough trust in its people not to limit access.

Yes-it is-he said COMMON-apparently your company does not practice the
same methods used by those with 400+ employees.

> > 1. So it is less likley for a virus or trojan to be introduced to the
> > corparate network.
> 
> So I take it you would just do away with ftp access?

What part of "less likely" do you apparently not comprehend? By using
SIMPLE logic you can pretty much determine that if you DECREASE the risk
in one area it is LESS LIKELY to happen.

> > 2. So offensive material is less likley to be displayed on a uers
> > monitor in the work place, or stored on corporate servers.
> 
> This comes down to the quality of the people you hire.

That has got to be the most ridiculous statement I have ever heard.
Possibly you work in an enviroment with 20-40 employees but in the
corporate environment people enjoy constantly sending little email
programs back and forth-hundreds per day-some of which even contain
viruses. Most of these are not intentional-therefore by filtering web
content and screening email attachments, it makes it LESS LIKELY that we
will have an outbreak. There's those words again-learn them.

> Obviously, I have a point here.

Sorry, but not really. What you have here is more of an attempt to vent
some type of irrelevant frustration on a discussion that had a valid
point.

-Matt Moore