e-mail and new services for public use in libraries ?

[scharles]

Hello:

I get questions from patrons all the time concerning email, and why they
can't send any on our public access internet computers.  Usually they want
to send email to a web page. For those patrons that have an email account (a
shell account for example) I tell them to telnet in and log on and use the
email features provided by that system. Typically they don't have their own
email address so I tell them it's not possible to send or receive email on
our system, which up to now I thought was correct. (We have not set up an
email server on our public access computers so I don't see how they could
receive any email).  

Can anyone shed some light on this?  I'm afraid I don't speak or read Finnish.

Thanks,
Scott C.

At 05:16 AM 3/25/97 -0800, you wrote:
>On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Andre Backs wrote:
>
>Hello.

>We allow the public use their own e-mail (telnet, pop, imap) from our
>terminals freely.  Sending mail is also possible even without own address,
>simply using browser's capabilities or preferrably the special WWW-form 
><URL:http://kirjakaapeli.lib.hel.fi/cgi-bin/wwwmail>.  Other info about
>things to know when sending or receiving internet mail is available in
><URL:http://kirjakaapeli.lib.hel.fi/ohje/sahkoposti.html>, too bad in
>Finnish only.
>
>Usenet news-services are also available.
>
>-
>Toni Alatalo, civil servant             http://www.lib.hel.fi/~antont/		
>Helsinki City Library / Cable Book      http://kirjakaapeli.lib.hel.fi/
>
>
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