Message Board Changes?

[JEL]

Was there a change in the tags for these boards? I don't post here much, but I enjoy reading the boards from work. Until last week anyway, because now when I click on the message board, it trips the internet filters at work. I don't have any problems with the two or three other boards I visit from there, so it seems the change was done on this site itself. Anyone else have this problem?

 

[EricNoah]

What address are you using -- www.enworld.org/forums or enworld.cyberstreet.com ?

 

[JEL]

What address are you using -- www.enworld.org/forums or enworld.cyberstreet.com ?

The first one.

 

[Morrus]

Nope, no change at all. Perhaps the filters at work have been changed or updated?

 

[EricNoah]

I don't know. I know our internet filter at work is site & category based -- one day, your favorite site is "unknown" to the filter and so isn't blocked, and the next day it gets added to a blocked category like Games and suddenly you can't get in. Our filter's blocked site list gets updated once a day, I think.

 

[JEL]

Okay, thanks for the replies, guys. I'll just have to continue to check the boards from home from now on.

 

[SubMensa]

I don't know. I know our internet filter at work is site & category based -- one day, your favorite site is "unknown" to the filter and so isn't blocked, and the next day it gets added to a blocked category like Games and suddenly you can't get in. Our filter's blocked site list gets updated once a day, I think.

If the internet filter is Surf Control then right on their website there is a "Test a Site" link. in the window that comes up you can query the category that a certain website is in. They also have a "Submit a Site" link after the test if you think the category is wrong.

I know from personal experience the process does work. www.enworld.org was in games for a short while and was unreachable from my work. Now it is listed as Hobbies & Recreation.

Hopes this helps any out there overcome the oppression of the "Man"...