Ebay blocked

[Chris]

Ebay has been blocked by RM. Is this only in staffordshire or all over the country

[johnj1710]

I'm blocked but also in staffordshire. Life darker now but hope lies in employment sites still being allowed!

[rush_tech]

Ebay has been blocked by RM. Is this only in staffordshire or all over the country

 

Does it let you at search.ebay.co.uk

[DSapseid]

Try installing firefox 2 and in the connections settings give it a direct connection to the internet it bypass' most of countys blocks here!!

 

Dan

[_Bat_]

Try installing firefox 2 and in the connections settings give it a direct connection to the internet it bypass' most of countys blocks here!!

 

Dan

 

Wow. I wish it was that easy for us. I keep meaning to set up a connection to my home server that I can use, but just haven't gotten around to it. I did hear that in Brum, the filters are going to be changed so that the schools have more control over who is filtered and who isn't.

 

The easiest way for us is to use the google cache server. This will obviously only work for certain things though, excluding the all important non-web file downloads etc.

[gwendes]

eBay blocked here - search.ebay.co.uk is dead too

Websense is my enemy - particularly with things like proxy servers when it thinks I'm a naughty student and throws out 'Proxy avoidance' errors! GRRR

[john]

Websense is very good at filtering eBay and sites like it, and it should be for the stupid cost it is! But I do like the fact its group bases so Domain Admins get unfiltered and restricted by default

[maniac]

We're lucky, the proxyserver used for staff in our LEA has e-bay allowed, and I hope it stays that way as ocassionally I have used it for purchasing odd things like DVI-VGA adapters and other such small componants. Can't see the harm in having it allowed, think it should be the schools decision really.

 

Mike.

[gwendes]

Websense is very good at filtering eBay and sites like it, and it should be for the stupid cost it is! But I do like the fact its group bases so Domain Admins get unfiltered and restricted by default

 

LEA have killed it - I could be God and still not get on eBay here

[nawbus]

I'm blocked but also in staffordshire. Life darker now but hope lies in employment sites still being allowed!

 

I'm in Staffs as well. I e-mailed RM yesterday and now it's unblocked!

[Friez]

Upsetting for some, but makes sense in a way. According to EBay's TOS you must be over 18 to be registered and using the site, so students most certainly shouldn't be on EBay.

 

Of course, that doesn't stop your teaching staff selling off your printer toners or anything...

[localzuk]

I believe it was added to the block list here also (quite a while back) but we just added it to our allow list - us being on the SWGfL which uses the RM filtering system.

[Norphy]

We blocked ebay here after it became the second most popular site after Google. After a bit of investigation it was proven that all they were looking at were cars and handbags so we blocked the site as a timewaster.

[derer1]

We have the login/HTTPS side of ebay blocked, after several students were found to be selling pirated software/music/whatever on it, and using the college supplied email addresses as points of contact.

 

Several irate buyers contacted the college directly as a result, which led to the blocking.

[DSapseid]

I did hear that in Brum, the filters are going to be changed so that the schools have more control over who is filtered and who isn't.

 

I am just about to get that in west sussex but i might not be able to use it as we use an ISA server so we only send out one IP address to the county proxy so i am going to have to rewire the port that i plug into stratight into the broadband switch

[Halfmad]

Ebay is blocked for students here but not staff although it's still filtered for bad words (because obviously adults shouldn't know any!)

 

There are ways around symantec web security though as the students have found out much to my annoyance!

[Midget]

symantec web security is rubbish, Peacefire's The Circumventor will easily get around it

[Halfmad]

Midget - any proxy server on the net gets 90% around it 8O

[Whyyoublockmyinternets]

Ahhh, ebay. Without it, our Librarian would be left with nothing to do. Which is why I blocked the .com and .co.uk revisions. So now she uses ebay.de all day instead. So far this week she's racked up 489 hits, of which 373 are unique hits to the 'bay.

I do love passing this stuff on to SLT...ho hum!

[Gatt]

Ahhh, ebay. Without it, our Librarian would be left with nothing to do. Which is why I blocked the .com and .co.uk revisions. So now she uses ebay.de all day instead. So far this week she's racked up 489 hits, of which 373 are unique hits to the 'bay.

I do love passing this stuff on to SLT...ho hum!

 

DO you and I have the same librarian

[elsiegee40]

We use RM for filtering and have access to eBay, but not to the forums... just as well really; we buy quite alot for the school through eBay!

[jcollings]

Ebay is filtered by us for staff and students. Can't really see why either need access from school.

[Whyyoublockmyinternets]

DO you and I have the same librarian

I dunno, does she sell buttons and spend the other half of her day looking for retirement homes in Eastbourne?

[contink]

I nearly got lynched a couple of days ago because someone at county had added ebay to the filter list and blocked it.

 

Various staff members have complained to the extent that I've had to put a special item on the helpdesk to explain it wasn't my fault...

[mikeymike]

use to have it but now blocked as staff were on it too much. it has been put in the shopping category so anything to do with shopping is blocked as you need a credit card.

 

plus is it educational