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September 5, 2008 at 02:33 AM
beth

How can our site avoid blocking on government and school networks?

by beth . Updated 17 years, 10 months ago

Hi, everybody. I’m a freelance web designer working with a youth-
serving non-profit organization. My client’s website is visited mostly
by teachers, students, and school resource officers running crime
watch programs in their schools.

But lately we’ve run into trouble with users in school networks and in
government organizations not being able to access our website at all.
I guess we’re being blocked. This has been a persistent problem and
I’m at a loss how to explain it, much less fix it.

The website is hosted on a shared server. It has a discussion forum
for use by kids and adults trying to stop crime in their schools 🙂
based on phpBB.

I have suggested that when these unhappy teachers call them up, they
should tell them to ask their IT admins to whitelist our site, but their
IT admins don’t seem to have any answers either.

Is there anything at all that *I* can do?

I’m frustrated. The site is at www.ycwa.org. Does anyone out there
have any insights??

Thanks much.

– Beth

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