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  • JRingold
    Big Fat Guy
    • Apr 2002
    • 772
    #1

    Paintball and Websense

    For any of you who work in corporate environments, I went through the trouble to have www.airgun.com reclassified by websense from "weapons" to "sports: shooting and gun clubs".

    I was pretty mad a them when they had it first classified as weapons. I submitted to have it reclassified and they said that it belonged in weapons. Then I went through and submitted to have Smart Parts, WGP, WDP, Tippmann, BT, Dye, Planet Eclipse, etc. reclassified as weapons as they had done to AGD. Wouldn't you know it, they decided to change their minds...

    Now it's not blocked for me at the office anymore!
    I went like this :shooting:
    He went like this :tard: then like this :wow: then like this :cry:
    Now he shoots a Mag too...

    -JR
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    • robnix
      email robnix@gmail
      • Jan 2006
      • 2094
      #2
      Originally posted by JRingold
      For any of you who work in corporate environments, I went through the trouble to have www.airgun.com reclassified by websense from "weapons" to "sports: shooting and gun clubs".

      I was pretty mad a them when they had it first classified as weapons. I submitted to have it reclassified and they said that it belonged in weapons. Then I went through and submitted to have Smart Parts, WGP, WDP, Tippmann, BT, Dye, Planet Eclipse, etc. reclassified as weapons as they had done to AGD. Wouldn't you know it, they decided to change their minds...

      Now it's not blocked for me at the office anymore!
      Nice job.

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        • 91Foxtrot
          Lovely day for a Guinness!
          • Jun 2005
          • 112
          #3
          My work has a weekly want ads database. Once I submitted a "WTB old paintball gear" ad and they rejected it due to paintball equipment being weaponry. I decided not to bother complaining. Of course there are probably hundred of KP3s out there begging to be sold for next to nothing, so maybe I'll give it another try sometime...

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            • skipdogg
              OG & HNIC
              • Nov 2000
              • 1392
              #4
              thanks!!!

              websense is retarded. It makes me furious when they classify paintball as weapons too. Guess I don't have to worry about the AGD site anymore. THANK YOU. I hate ignorance...
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                • buzzboy
                  Emo grass cuts inself
                  • Mar 2005
                  • 1322
                  #5
                  I know being in school is different but our "Lightspeed" calls this and most other paintball "violence". Though I do know a couple ways around it. [cough]proxify[cough] [cough]urlwash[cough]

                  One time ours classified one thing and blocked it as "educational". That really stumped me(and our network admin).

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                    • warpfeedmod
                      I came, I saw, I painted.
                      • Jun 2001
                      • 1265
                      #6
                      I dunno why, but my work doesn't block www.airgun.com, yet store.airgun.com is blocked and classified as "weapons"
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                      It was the only tournament I've been to where they have more cases of beer than paint. - gimp

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                        • Hexis
                          Green Mag Freak
                          • Sep 2001
                          • 2427
                          #7
                          The problem is that they don't have catagories for this kind of thing. And if they add them, they get too many catagories.

                          Really how do you come up with a finite set of catagories that you can fit the entire Internet in?

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                            • warbeak2099
                              That is my foot!
                              • Jan 2004
                              • 4447
                              #8
                              allnettools.com lol. proxy!
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                                • JRingold
                                  Big Fat Guy
                                  • Apr 2002
                                  • 772
                                  #9
                                  If your people have put in a content filter and not filtering proxies...

                                  they should all be fired.

                                  I didn't check store, I'll look into it on Monday...
                                  I went like this :shooting:
                                  He went like this :tard: then like this :wow: then like this :cry:
                                  Now he shoots a Mag too...

                                  -JR

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                                    • Draken
                                      Registered User
                                      • Apr 2006
                                      • 161
                                      #10
                                      our websense at work doesn't block anything paintball related, but good job getting your IT people to unblock it

                                      The way I get around it is I use remote desktop to my home computer, don't have to worry about proxies or anything like that, and they can't block remote desktop since I have to use it for client systems

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