e-mail in libraries

[Steve Hooley!]

        Our University provides email accts to students so we accomodate
them, also providing Netscape mailer for non-students. Several students have
multiple email accts, using HotMail and its cousins as well as their private
accts. But anyone with a browser can access HotMail so it would be hard to
police, even if we were police. *sigh* 
        My point, I guess, is that we allow access to academic sites and
frequently the users need to email the sites directly for info so it would
be a hardship to disable the mailers. We have some old 8088 and 286 machines
with telnet capability for email and some catalog or database access. When
someone hogs a station too long we make them move to the 'Chat Pit.' 
>
>At 08:54 PM 5/27/97 -0700, Joe Schallan wrote:
>>Why is providing free access to e-mail part of the public library's
>>mission?
>>How many libraries provide a bank of phones for public use?  After all,
>>those monthly line charges are annoying, as are the long-distance
>>charges.
>>
>>And what if someone has been waiting to use that workstation for
>>research?
>
>I was wondering the same thing myself.
>
>Ronnie
>
>
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