Death Threat Woes

Charles P. Hobbs transit at primenet.com
Wed Oct 29 10:40:48 EST 1997



On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Vladislav S. Davidzon wrote:

> This is a very valid point... What about CGI forms?  
> 
> How far should a library go to prevent unfortunate things like this from
> occuring before we start providing security instead of information? ;)  
> I see the need for security and preventing e-mail, but there are always
> CGI forms as well as various web e-mail services... Any ideas?


Hopefully, we won't get to the point where we have to ban CGI forms
from library Internet stations . . .

(I'd imagine that if someone, in the library, used his Hotmail 
account to send harrassing mail, etc., then the user would be 
traced to Hotmail, rather than the library).



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