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This article was written by someone who sells email utilities like spam blockers, etc. This is his proposed solution to the problem: "This non-confrontational
by imp 16y ago
This article was written by someone who sells email utilities like spam blockers, etc. This is his proposed solution to the problem:
"This non-confrontational approach can be achieved by using an e-mail monitoring tool that will not only monitor activity but can also be set to automatically respond to the activity in a variety of ways."
It doesn't look like he has a specific porn-filtering utility, but overall I think his opinion is a little biased.
- pstevensza 16y agoThe industry sells image analysers hard. I've run ones by M86 Security and IronPort, and couldn't implement them based on the suggested approach, i.e. an automatic email wagging a finger at a suspected infringement. Not only do your employees now feel that they're working for the Ministry of Truth, but I imagine that you may have some problems if you consistently get it wrong and falsely accuse people based on a piece of software.
- dkarl 16y agoYeah, I'd get pissed off if I got an email every time I accidentally saw a racy picture at work. It happens more often than you think, usually when you're reading about some current event and you read, "Hey, I know someone who this actually happened to. She blogged about it _here_..." and you end up on a blog full of pictures of the blogger dressed up for lolicon or cosplay. I don't want to be auto-badgered by some image recognition program. If anything, badger me for reading non-work-related news while I'm supposed to be working. ... :-O Cntl-w