Instant Messenging Woes

[Wil McGilvery]

Nothing unless I go postal and block everything. This IM issue was forced upon me because of that "Give them an inch they will take a mile concept."

I used to think we had responsible people working here, but alas that is not the case. There are always a few who wreak it for everyone else.

Regards,

Wil McGilvery
Manager
Lynch Digital Media Inc

         

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of daniel
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 2:22 PM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Instant Messenging Woes

On August 9, 2004 10:49 am, Wil McGilvery wrote:
> Hello Everyone.
>
> I am now in the position of having to regulate Instant Message clients in
> our Network. Does anyone have experience with this?
>
> I would like to:
>
> Use an internal IM system for staff to use.
> Allow certain employees to connect to the outside world.
> Keep track of who they connect to.
>
> We use IM for communication between remote offices and Technical Support
> etc, but some people have started to chat with their buddies instead of
> working.
>
> I don't want to shutdown the Instant Message clients completely. Currently
> the client of choice is MSN.

just a thought, but what's to keep people from ssh'ing into their box @home 
and running a messenger client tunneled over ssh?

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