[WEB4LIB] Re: E-mail in libraries

[Isabel Danforth]

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


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?
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>I only just today joined hotmail, and from there subscribed to web4lib. 
>I have posted to web4lib before, under a real name.
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>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.
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>>From there, they are accountable for their e-mail.
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>>From here, I don't think I can be made to be.
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>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
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