Declan Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 Jim, the closure of Manx Forums and Manx On-line were nothing to do with the Goverment. Seems reasonable enough to ban access to the forums by the Government. I can't access the forums at work, which is probably a good thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 lol Declan I'm just fueling the fires of the conspiracy theorists, one day I might become a troll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ykstarr Posted March 9, 2005 Author Share Posted March 9, 2005 Seems reasonable enough to ban access to the forums by the Government. I can't access the forums at work, which is probably a good thing. sure - loads of things are 'banned' by the government and that's cool. was just hoping that they wouldn't have caught on to the new forums!! Quite right too I say. I don't pay my sodding taxes so that government workers can spend their days rabble-rousing on forums, looking at online shoe stores and downloading porn. hey quasi-moto - smarten up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirdick Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Ah well, you beat 'em for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyge Brahe Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 government workers can no longer check out manxforums from work - can no longer access the page. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You sure about this? I got on ok today from the hospital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirdick Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 The worst place for this kind of thing is the new hospital.......so I'm told? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You sure about this? I got on ok today from the hospital. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I feel one of those lols coming on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Maybe it's just ykstarr they blocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cret Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Our office policy is that they tell you not to use web based email from their machines and not to take the p1ss in terms of using internet & email at work but use it sensibly say at lunch, (when it's mainly down....) or if you want to book a flight or check the news or something during the day. I think they're quite trusting at our gaff the way they handle it and surprisingly it seems to work fairly well. Plus I couldn't abuse it if I wanted to anyway as my boss (the IT manager) sits behind me facing my monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pragmatopian Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 Can access forums, but many other sites are blocked by our proxy monitor including most web-based email and even online storage facilities like yahoo photo albums or pbase. Presumably this is to prevent you divulging trade secrets through unmonitored channels e.g. posting the company's entire customer database on your free web hard drive. I expect porn sites are blocked too for obvious reasons. Unfortunately proxy sites are blocked as well, so no getting round it that way (as someone earlier suggested). It even blocks frames and picture elements from blocked sites referenced on unblocked sites. I've noted recently that some companies are getting even more restrictive and actually having an include rather than an exclude list, so you can only see specific parts of the web sanctioned by your employer. I'd hate it, but I guess it's fair enough - you don't have a right to engage personal web surfing at work (unless you got a brilliant contract lawyer to draft your employment contract) - it's a privilege that they can curtail at any time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 Maybe it's just ykstarr they blocked. now i cry. edit - bugger, forgot to log out of matty's login - it's ykstarr here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 Maybe it's just ykstarr they blocked. now i cry. edit - bugger, forgot to log out of matty's login - it's ykstarr here. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And that is why you aren't allowed to use the internet ykstarr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 sheesh. bloody fascists. Funny worked for us last week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FCMR Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 Maybe they caught Crumlin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyge Brahe Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 Banned site as from today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerboy Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 Banned site as from today. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> oh well i guess you will have to go back to playing solitaire or staring out the window with the rest of the civil servants..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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