[ale] parental crisis

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, David S. Jackson wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:23:32PM -0500 James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> > I'm having a parental crisis. I need a quick and easy way to block email
> > to and from a particular address. I of course own the email server
> > (sendmail, stock config with RH8.0). 
> > 
> > Pointers, exact code changes, etc. are welcome.
> 
> Hmmm.  Does the user (son, daughter?) you're trying to restrict
> have access to other clients as well, say IRC or IM?  If so, I
> wonder if email filtering alone will do it?  Maybe you could put
> a sniffer on one of the router boxes and just log everything to
> and from that user?  But then he/she could use a computer
> somewhere else I guess.  Personally, I think I'd try to go the
> log route so I could at least keep on top of what Junior(ette?)
> was up to...
> 
> Parent on!  :-)

Sorry if I butt in, but logging literally everything may be the only way 
to go - blocking access from or to a single email addie seems like it will 
not work on internet based communications. After all, IRC, IM (as pointed 
out above), HotMail, an address on "loan" from a friend at school all come 
to mind. Should the child have a technically resourceful friend, you may 
be looking at protocal tunneling or something else to defend against. 

Depending on the stakes already raised, and what/who you are attempting to 
avoid, getting those logs may be the only way to show complience with your 
instructions, and they have holes a mile across to drive a life through.

Good luck and (as above) Parent on! Trying to secure a teenager may be 
harder than secure a computer while herding kittens in a field of 
butterflies and mice.


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