Turning off E-Mail and newsgroups

[Isabel Danforth]

Currently we have our only PC accessing the net next to the reference desk,
and can 'keep an eye' on it.  So we have just removed our email address
from the preferences menu.

We would like to be able to keep Netscape as open as possible when it goes
onto our graphical OPAC terminals.  Is there a way to block email from the
machine, but still to allow reading, but not posting to newsgroups?

Any ideas?

Isabel

At 06:42 AM 11/26/97 -0800, Roy Lewis wrote:
>These Browsers that do not have the Email program in them will not
>recognize the mailto: command.  You still would need to use a filter to
>restrict certin URL's  I really see no reason to block Hotmail or Rocket
>mail or Yahoo mail.  It is just the email programs that reside on the local
>computer that are a problem.  I feel that email is as important to the WWW
>as any other function as long as the data does not remain on the local
>computer the patron would not spend any more time with it than doing any
>othe search and surf.
>
>Roy Lewis
>
>At 12:45 PM 11/25/97 -0800, Vladislav S. Davidzon wrote:
>>But the question that comes up in my mind is what about mailto: URL's?
>>Also what about CGI forms and such services as hotmail?  Is there any
>>known way to block such sites (other than using filtering software such as
>>CyberPatrol?)
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Vladislav
>
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