As you know, 8e6Labs provided Olympic News and Olympic Streaming categories to our customers for the duration of the Olympics. Now that the Olympics are over we will be removing these categories from the 8e6 database. These categories will most likely make a return in two years for the 2010 Winter Olymics in Vancouver.

We will remove these categories in a library update on the night of Wednesday 9/3. You do not need to take any action, as these will be removed automatically.

I am specifically interested in how our customers used these categories. If you have a minute, please provide some feedback via the comments on how you used the Olympic categories. Did you block either of them, or were you monitoring them for over usage? Did you setup alerts in your Threat Analysis Reporter that would limit usage?

I think that these temporary categories can be a very good service that we could offer to our customers for periodic events like the Olympics and March Madness. The key is in knowing how you use them.

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