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Location: Monmouth county, NJ USA
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No Pelican for you!
Seems like Pelican has suddenly been blocked at work by our firewall. Comes up as a "suspicious, Alternative, automotive/ newsgroup".
I always knew there was something evil about this place! 
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10-29-2014, 05:45 AM
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It seems to randomly be blocked by mine as well.
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10-29-2014, 06:06 AM
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This is totally unacceptable! Contact your union rep immediately.
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10-29-2014, 06:15 AM
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If my wife knew how much time I spent here she would probably have it blocked as well.
But then again, it's cheaper than hookers and blow! |
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10-29-2014, 06:21 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
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I suspect your work uses bluecoat proxies. Blue Coat categorizes websites. If a company uses Blue Coat proxies, they get the categorization from BC, and will probably have already had a set of block and allow rules created. I suspect Pelican Parts just got categorized. You can check Blue Coat's website categorizations here. https://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp Quote:
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Oh you are surfing that "Pelican" site.
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: SF Bay Area
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Well, a lot of the characters here are suspicious, many prefer alternative this, alternative that, but not sure why an automotive newsgroup is suspect.
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10-29-2014, 07:56 AM
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the forums don't appear to be on a name based virtual host, so direct by IP address should work
Pelican Parts Technical BBS - Powered by vBulletin
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10-29-2014, 08:17 AM
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I just demanded that our IT Director whitelist Pelican and if he didn't I was going to punch him and take away his lunch.
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10-29-2014, 08:46 AM
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Location: Central TX west of Houston
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I'm guessing the suspicious part comes from the PARF side of things as well as the legs thread, the boobs thread, the i just cut my sack thread, not to mention the slap, slap. slap that cratch thread....
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10-29-2014, 09:25 AM
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10-29-2014, 09:28 AM
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Speaking if, I am going to eat his lunch now.
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10-29-2014, 09:55 AM
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I requested that Blue Coat review the Rating for Pelican here:
sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp |
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10-29-2014, 12:08 PM
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Fixed it for ya! Works now. Try it. See below:
filtering@bluecoat.com 1:10 PM (2 hours ago) to me Submitted URL: Pelican Parts Technical BBS - Powered by vBulletin Suggested categories: Newsgroups/Forums and Vehicles Your comments: This forum is very clean thanks to moderators and and anti-virus measures. It is a valuable resource for sharing technical information. Reviewed: October 29, 2014 8:10:27 PM GMT Thanks for submitting Pelican Parts Technical BBS - Powered by vBulletin to the Blue Coat WebFilter team for review. We appreciate the opportunity to provide the results of our analysis with you. Based on your recommendation and after careful evaluation of the Web content submitted, a Web Content Analyst has recategorized this URL as Newsgroups/Forums and Vehicles. It's important to note that new categorizations are part of a daily update cycle provided by Blue Coat, but it is up to Blue Coat's customers to decide how often they update their categorization database. BCWF does not know the update schedules for its customers. To learn more click here. If you have any other questions that should be directed to the Blue Coat WebFilter team, feel free to reply to this message. Thank you, Blue Coat WebFilter filtering@bluecoat.com
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10-29-2014, 02:20 PM
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Bah, the company is doing it wrong. If there is something on the Internet that folks need to get to, then block everything and whitelist what you need. Have a quick way to get new sites whitelisted. If folks don't need internet for job stuff, then why have access at all?
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10-29-2014, 03:51 PM
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My company's Internet settings blocks anything that might have the slightest possibility of being porn. I've done searches that were blocked because a fragment of a search term contained the letters "a s s" together, like "assumption"
The website RacingJunk.com is also blocked, presumably because junk is a slang term for genitalia.
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My kids' have WiFi at school, with all sites teenage girls may be actually interested in.....facebook, etc.......blocked.
This has resulted in an Arm's Race whereby as soon as a site is blocked, the girls take it as a personal challenge to get around the block. If the ASD (Australian Signals Directorate, our version of the NSA) ever did a recruitment drive through that school no computer anywhere would ever be safe again. P.S. Boastful father alert: My kid got the highest final year grades in ITS (Information Technology Studies) at that school in 12 years. She's topped her school, we're waiting to hear if she topped the State. But of course, she never did any of the hacking. :-)
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10-29-2014, 07:11 PM
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Yea, the school is not just fighting one kid, they are fighting against the combined talent of an entire planet of hackers and crackers.
When I was in school the WiFi was so well protected it did not yet exist. Of course we did not have a computer to use it with anyway. We were happy to get to use an electric typewriter.
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10-30-2014, 05:56 AM
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Ours does pretty well as a filter. Though some pictures don't show up when linked to other sites as those sites are "questionable".
Glen, we had to use a hammer, chisel and a slab of rock.
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10-30-2014, 06:07 AM
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Can you guys get Pelican at work now? Looking for some feedback here. Or praise would be fine.
Bluecoat updated their evaluation of Pelican on the same day I contacted them. The company I work at got the update immediately. So I was unblocked on the same day. But Bluecoat states that some companies don't update every day. So you may have to wait a while for it to turn on for you.
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1970/1982 Porsche 914-6/911SC 2.7 RS
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