[WEB4LIB] Limiting Web-based email: a solution?

[Dan Lester]

This is an interesting approach, and obviously works.  As some of you have 
noted previously, our system of an inexpensive proxy server does even 
better, and also gives you the benefit of logs you can analyze for all user 
transactions.  This will let you know what resources, subjects, etc, are of 
most interest to your users, much as you may analyze circulation 
statistics.  Plus, we've found some interesting and useful resources from 
looking at the logs that we'd never heard of.  Of course you can also see 
the OTHER "interesting resources" that people go to, but we ignore that 
issue unless someone complains of sexual harassment.

Whatever technique you use, you may wish to look at my fairly comprehensive 
list of free email and chat sites on the web that is on www.84.com.  That 
list will be updated this weekend with a number of new ones, and will be 
updated as necessary in the future.

cheers

dan

At 12:26 PM 3/19/99 -0800, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Like many of you, we have had a problem with patrons
>with people using Web email and "camping out" for
>long periods of time. We have come up with a solution
>for some of you which we would like to share...
>
>http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/email.html
>
>-Eric
>
>
>
>
>Eric Schnell
>Assistant Professor
>Head, Automation Services
>Prior Health Sciences Library
>The Ohio State University
>schnell.9 at osu.edu / 614-292-4870
>http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric.html

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