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Cinderella

My first BMW 320 circa 1990 was like that too.

Trousers

Vista.

The SBB ticketing system: Hub formatting turns every reply ticket entry or reply update for customers into a single continuous line of text with word wrap. It does maintain formatting if you email a reply, but that doesn't recognise any tables or images.

No probs here. IOS 17.6.2 Outlook 4.2352.0 Via VPN. Never on bleeding edge releases. No auto updating. Personal not work device.

Vienetta.

Wax…..

Soup…..

My Outlook was flaky on my home broadband and isn’t much better on mobile now.

(in) Eden

Our Humax Freesat box stopped supporting the iPlayer back at the end of October, so we went to a “Freesat” box, which does everything a lot faster, which is good on our 5.5Mb broadband. There’s no fibre broadband, nor likely to be. We get a decent 4G signal on o2 or Vodafone, so have got a 4G router and are going to trial run that before our BT contract runs out next year and hopefully we won’t need to renew it.

Our filtering provider has been sending "new" Safeguarding reports. "They have decided" that we don't need to see all the Safeguarding category log records any more. We identified a Pornography category block was unreported earlier this week which we queried. We have been informed that their new reporting system looks at an entire word in the url and using "contextual filters", decides or not whether to include the log record in a Safeguarding report. In this case, it decided there was nothing to report! (As it happens, all of our Porn blocks have been FP's, as it this one, but that's not the point here). We expect a full and complete report of any Safeguarding category blocks that actually took place, in line with current guidance. Thoughts please?

I agree, as any improvements in categorisation will likely help the wider Netsweeper user community too.

Anything we don’t like we override in our own lists, temporarily or permanently as needed. We don’t have iPads taken home, but still force pupils through filters if laptops go home. Decryption just works as usual. There are a number of domains that have to be exempt from decryption because it would otherwise break them, and owners such as Google, Apple and Microsoft publish lists, as do many of the other school software vendors where it’s applicable. It’s likely LGFL would be able to help you as other schools will have needed to have covered the bases already. We put all guests (non-school devices), on a separate VLAN and currently they have to have an SSL certificate installed as a condition of using the school network. They get a basic - pupil level of filtering, which we can update to teacher where necessary. The same decryption rules apply.

boredhumans.com got added to one of my lists as a domain block quite a while ago. (Also boredbutton and boredpanda for different reasons). Decryption is essential for us and was a real step up in terms of the fine grained blocking and importantly unblocking we can achieve for some sites, and also for understanding the path a user took if we have to investigate a technical issue or otherwise, where you need to see the whole url audit trail, not just the domain. It opens up better filtering configuration opportunities, and Netsweeper does have some smart capabilities without getting overly complicated – categorisation excepted. At a different school, I enabled decryption for Smoothwall. This was a very old version of the product, and as it was LA hosted, we could never drive it to its full potential compared to (yet another school) where we had our own appliance and could access more features - but it was a long time ago, so I've no direct exposure to current product. The dark art with filtering is being able to identify where your pupils have been allowed on the internet but shouldn’t have been.

Yes, evaluating once and caching rather than re-evaluating when the content changes. The suppliers need to step up, but that does not excuse the bundlers from not offering up to date versions of product - both our current supplier and our LA do that. I am not a customer of theirs, but I do think that Smoothwall "get it" and are in that direction of travel. The saferinternet.uk.org website seems to be asking the wrong questions which also isn't helpful. SI: Does your product do this? Supplier: Yes, we do A, B and C and self sign it off. If it doesn't, nobody is bothered as its just a tick box exercise for "Is your supplier on the Saferinternet list?" that schools are mandated to comply with.

I'm interested in the respones you get. In spite of asking for a categorization check of spyce.ai, it still isn't categorised into any category that would cuse it to be blocked for our pupils or KS1/2. Can you ask about this please? The terms for the site state Normally (today), Netsweeper categorised a photo of a sunset, and a picture of Fred Flintstone and a cute sheep as pornography, so why are they being so tardy with this?

I used to be a werewolf once, but I'm alright nowoooooooooooooo

Part of the issue is the way that the Web Filters are marketed. All seem to have different strengths and weaknesses, and are mostly good tools that help us. When your supplier states: “Our network configuration, together with our hosted services, ensures 100% of your school’s traffic is completely safe before it enters your school" in some recent marketing fodder, you know that its laced with a fair bit of snake oil. (Trade descriptions?)

That's the one. I have previously asked for it to be reclassified to no avail, but have it in one of own own shared lists now for Netsweeper. Netsweeper did block the 1 to 1 chat aspect.

I had issues reacently at a Primary school where it let me logon as a primary pupils, access Andrew Tate's website and have a 1 to 1 chat with one of his people. This was a different filtering product. They all seem to me to have issues.

Like yourselves it is bundled from our Broadband supplier. Our main problem is not Netsweeper as such, but inept confinguration from our Broadband supplier.

I find similar with 1 to 1 video chat with strangers sites. I don't know why Netsweeper has such a problem categorising them. They all look the flipping same and use the same language and are a real safguarding nightmare.

I think I'm now settled on the Butterfly (Bluesky) site because most of the people I followed or interacted with on Twitter have more or less all turned up now.