[WEB4LIB] Re: E-mail in libraries

[Ron Ashley]

But if I were a student, standing at one of 40 public terminals in my 
library, the only accountable person you can trace is the campus IT 
administrator.

This is the person who signed an agreement with an ISP that he/she would 
validate all users, so any abuse could be traced. Since I neither make 
nor want my users to have to sign on, I, as the campus IT person, am in 
deep doo-doo if a user abuses hotmail.


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>Hotmail email are traceable to ip addresses.  I have had spam from 
hotmail
>addresses, and admins at hotmail have revoked the account.
>
>On the other hand, I have known students with 2 or 3 email accounts on
>academic servers.  Those also are just as anonymous to me as an account
>from hotmail.
>
>Isabel
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>At 11:04 AM 10/14/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>So.. Just for fun.. This comes to you all via hotmail. If I chose to 
>>flame/dis/rage on at you, could you tell who I am?
>>
>>I only just today joined hotmail, and from there subscribed to 
web4lib. 
>>I have posted to web4lib before, under a real name.
>>
>>I think I will probably adopt a 'both worlds' approach.... I will 
>>disallow hotmail, botmail, freemail, etc, but allow registered users 
>>telnet access to their campus mail accounts.
>>
>>>From there, they are accountable for their e-mail.
>>
>>>From here, I don't think I can be made to be.
>>
>>I don't mean this to be a challenge... just a demonstration of the 
power 
>>of anonymity.. Since I did it all from my personal workstation, I 
>>*might* be traceable by IP address. If I'd gone out to the floor, I 
>>don't think anyone could track me.
>>
>>
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>Isabel L. Danforth   Reference Librarian, Wethersfield Public Library
>danforth at tiac.net       http://www.wethersfieldlibrary.org
>		     Coordinator of Librarians' Online Support Team
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