Message from an unhappy Jakunen

[Womble]

"Guys and gals. I won't be on the forum for a while as work have blocked the
site under hunting and gun clubs - go figure...
So until I get my network and internet sorted out at home if anyone wants to
talk to me please mail me via my profile. I can still get to my personal
e-mail (well for now at least...)

I'll try to get to a net café occasionally to check on the forum.

Until then, have fun and be most excellent to each other dudes!

LONG LIVE PETTY BUREAUCRACY!!!!"

:hmmm:

Wayne: Martin says he knows you PMed him, but he can't even read that, perhaps you could email him?

 

[tenbears10]

Bummer.

Bill

 

[Paganwolf]

:yikes:

 

[Hoodoo]

Bummer.

 

[tomtom]

:badputer:

 

[Paganwolf]

:badputer:

its sad but tomtom made me laugh jak would have liked that :roll:

 

[JakeR]

All i can ask is why? :evil:

 

[Adi007]

All i can ask is why? :evil:

Because at work the pointy haired bosses want folks to work and not be on BCUK.

In the 90s, everyone was putting in internet connections (even for people who didn't need them), it was big business. Now blocking sites is big business.

 

[Tony]

Sorry to hear that mate, it's a right pain. I wonder what the criteria is for being blocked...

Get the home kit sorted out mate

I wonder if there is someone on here that will take an image of every page and mail them to you each day ):

 

[ESpy]

Actually, I was wondering about a scrape script to nobble the new posts and digest them...

 

[Adi007]

There is (somewhere) a message digest feature on the forum ...

 

[JakeR]

Surely it's ok to do so on liunch break, and there are plenty of other distractions. And it also doesn't seem to be BCUK thats the problem, but we're apparently a hunting and gun club forum! :?:

 

[tenbears10]

Surely it's ok to do so on lunch break,

Problem is the computer doesn't know if you are on lunch or not so they just ban stuff permenantly. Spoil sports.

Bill

 

[JakeR]

Oops, i suppose so. Hadn't thought of that....:roll: Bogger.

 

[boaty]

Problem is the computer doesn't know if you are on lunch or not so they just ban stuff permenantly. Spoil sports.

Bill

But it's easy to define when access to sites is allowed - e.g. here's how to do it with Squid

Often it's not the technology that's the limiting factor...

 

[tenbears10]

Often it's not the technology that's the limiting factor...

I agree but think of flexible lunch times and different shifts on the same work stations. It takes time to set up the technology for all the variables. A lot of companies don't see why they should provide free personal internet access at any time, lunch or otherwise. Still, not sure why you should be allowed access to online shopping and not BCUK.

Another example of people not understanding and seeking to ban things they don't like the look of. Hunting and Guns = bad so we ban it. This is what worries me about the general public people really can't understand why what we like to do in our spare time is acceptable any more.

Bill

 

[Adi007]

After getting in touch with Websense (the filter provider) bushcraftUK will from now on the categorized under Message Boards & Clubs. This should come into effect with the release of the new database (early January).

Don't know if this will help those blocked or not ...