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Here are copies of the slides from Tim Nichols' seminar on Searching and Researching the World Wide Web: Emphasis on Christian websites. If you have any suggestions for research resources or additional catalog, bookmark or search sites, drop a note in the comments!

• Apple Keynote archive (268KB)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (401KB)
• Adobe PDF (226KB)
• Adobe/Macromedia Flash (2.90MB)

Here are links to copies of the presentation in various formats. Feel free to use any part of them. I'll add a creative commons license when I get some spare cycles.

• Apple Keynote (300KB)
• Adobe PDF (272KB)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (1.08MB)
• Adobe/Macromedia Flash (6.60MB)

Here are some links to resources & articles dealing with the need to archive student, faculty and staff email and instant messages:

• Ruling: Schools must archive eMail (eSchoolNews)
• High Court: Don't delete that eMail (eSchoolNews)
• Federal ruling forces schools to archive all electronic data (Milford Daily News)

If you attended the 2007 MACSA Technology Day, you've come to the right place for follow-up resources from the presentation on Internet & Email Content Filtering. If you want to see anything added to this, please feel free to drop a line in the comments.

Information on the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA):

• CIPA Home (direct from the FCC)
• CIPA Info from Universal Services (USAC) Site (comprehensive explanation on what you need to do to stay compliant to receive government funds)
• American Library Association CIPA Information (keep an eye on their From The Field section for reports on what has/hasn't worked for various schools)

Email Content Filtering

Useful sites for statistics on spam and virus transmission via electronic mail:

• Postini StatTrack
• MessageLabs Threat Statistics
• Symantec Internet Security Threat Report

Client-side Email Content Filtering :: Free/Built-in Resources

• Outlook Junk E-mail Filter (via Microsoft, covers Outlook 2003)
• Outlook 2007 Junk E-mail Filter (covers configuration on Outlook 2007)
• Outlook SPAM Tutorial (covers Outlook 2003, Outlook 2000 and Outlook Express)
  
  
• Dealing with Junk E-mail in Thunderbird (applies to all platforms)
• Thunderbird Junk E-mail Tutorial
  
  
• Apple Mail's Junk Mail Filter (via macdevcenter.com)
• Tutorial on Spam & Junk Mail in Apple Mail
  
  
• MailWasher (Windows)
  
  

Client-side Email Content Filtering :: Commercial Offerings

• SPAMfighter (Windows)
• MailWasher Pro (Windows)
• CA Anti-Spam 2007 (Windows)
• Top 10 Windows Spam Filters (Windows)
• Mac Spam Filtering Tools (OS X)

Server-side Email Content Filtering :: Free/Open Source Resources

• SpamAssassin (NOTE: OS X Server comes with SpamAssassin; Can run on Windows Server)
• dspam (Can run on Windows Server)
• MailStripper (Linux/*nix only)

Server-side Email Content Filtering :: Commercial Offerings

• Plethora of Windows Server-side Spam Filters
• Exchange Anti-Spam & Anti-Virus Tools
• Barracuda Spam Firewall (appliance)
• IronPort Anti-Spam (appliance)
• SonicWall (appliance)

Email Content Filtering :: Firewall/Anti-virus Solutions with Email Integration

• Grisoft AVG (anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-spyware, anti-spam, anti-phishing)
• Norton AntiSpam Solutions (server and/or workstation)
• McAfee Security Solutions (server and/or workstation)
• Microsoft Forefront Security (server and/or workstation)

Email Content Filtering :: Hosting/Outsourcing Services

• Google Apps for Education (free!)
• Postini (spam filter service)
• Sprint Hosted Spam Protection

Internet Content Filtering

Internet Content Filteirng :: Workstation-based

• SurfControl (commercial)
• ContentProtect Educational Edition (commercial)

Internet Content Filtering :: Server/Network-based

• Secure Computing Server/Appliance Offerings
• WebSense Enterprise (server software)
• DansGuardian (server-based, free, requires proxy server such as Squid Web Proxy Cache – also free, and can run on Windows or *nix); Squid can also be configured as a transparent network proxy with DansGuardian
• SonicWALL Content Filtering Service (appliance)
• BlueCoat (appliance)
• Fortinet FortiGuard (appliance/service, CIPA certified)
• Microsoft ISA Server

Internet Content Filtering :: DNS-based

• OpenDNS
• ScrubIT