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Email - Is there a way of limiting who can email u
| geek_rowlf |
March 15, 2010, 10:38 am |
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#1 | | My 11 yr old son wants an email account so he can email his cousins and a few friends, I am not keen on him having an account that anyone can send anything to him at, so am wondering if there is a way of setting one up that he can only receive and send emails to nominated people from. I am somewhat technically challenged so have no clue whether this can even be done let alone how to go about it. I would really appreciate any advise you can give me on this one. Cheers | |
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| geek_thegilly |
March 15, 2010, 10:49 am |
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#2 | | What OS? It's easy on a Mac, but I couldn't tell you for Windows/Linux. |
| geek_rowlf |
March 15, 2010, 10:55 am |
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#3 | | Windows |
| geek_ferita |
March 15, 2010, 11:03 am |
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#4 | The easiest way: Make him use your account
That way you can monitor it |
| geek_rowlf |
March 15, 2010, 11:09 am |
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#5 | | That is what he currently does, and will continue doing if I can't find a way of doing it, he is a good kid and he really just wants it coz some of his mates have their own, thought if I could limit him to emailing people I know and trust it was a way of him feeling like he had the freedom, while I feel that he is being kept reasonably safe. |
| geek_praetor_01 |
March 15, 2010, 11:16 am |
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#6 | | Do some googling on email whitelists - you can set your email programme up so that it only accepts emails from specified addresses - its called a whitelist. Doesn't stop him from emailing people off the list, but prevents bad incoming emails. Chances are as an 11 year old, he'll soon be ahead of you in terms of computer skills and ability to get around any white list anyway. |
| geek_rowlf |
March 15, 2010, 11:27 am |
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#7 | | Cheers! He will be using my computer so I will have a reasonable idea of whats going on, just want to make it as safe as poss for him. |
| geek_0800xford |
March 15, 2010, 11:43 am |
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#8 | | i hope your antivirus/antimalware software is up to date... |
| geek_mattnzw |
March 15, 2010, 8:21 pm |
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#9 | | If you have it hosted with a proper web host and use your own domain, depending on the host you can setup a whitelist, so only email addresses on the whitelist are received by the server. ANyone else is rejected. |
| geek_dunedin_ree |
March 15, 2010, 8:23 pm |
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#10 | | Once he has his own email account he can get all sorts of *other* accounts, like myspace, facebook, bebo and so on. |
| geek_biker_69 |
March 15, 2010, 11:33 pm |
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#11 | | Gees... neurotic much? Lose the apron strings. |
| geek_cybertao |
March 15, 2010, 11:58 pm |
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#12 | It isn't over the top. I haven't set my eight year old step-son up with an email account.
Anytime he needs to use an email in order to sign up to a website or game, he asks me to do it for him. He's allowed to use his mum's account to write emails, under supervision, and shown any messages that arrive for him.
11 is a bit older, but we're going to stick with the current routine as long as possible; until he's advanced enough to sort out an email account by himself. By then he should have had a good grounding in privacy and protecting himself online.
And it's not like I can't see what he's up to. I set up the computer for him, and he doesn't know the administrator password.
With the way these older 'kids' post all their sordid secrets and personal info on Facebook and the like these days, I'm going to make sure he's more grounded and not that stupid. |
| geek_0800xford |
March 16, 2010, 8:51 am |
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#13 | | awesome | |
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