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<!--quoteo(post=68365:date=Wed 23rd Jan 2008, 03:52 PM:name=TonyDevil)-->QUOTE(TonyDevil @ Wed 23rd Jan 2008, 03:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->the IT support nazis have blocked access to CMC from my work [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ranting.gif[/img]
wonder how long til they block carpe too [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Tony, this happened to me at work a while back. But they also cut off access to all the legit tech support forums we use e.g. IBM, Oracle, etc, etc. we successfully argued for them to be reinstated for users in the IT department who could justify the use of forums. Our IT security guys didn't like it because their blocking software wasn't sophisticated enough to distinguish between forum types, but as was pointed out to them - "it's not our fault you bought crap software (again)" [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ranting.gif[/img] . During the debate it turned out their software also couldn't log forum access either, so they'd no way of knowing that the forums we accessed were IT techy ones. Result [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/good.gif[/img]
So if they've applied a blanket ban on all forums you could try arguing for access to the DBA forums.....