[WEB4LIB] Re: E-mail in librarie

[Charles F. Bearden]

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> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: E-mail in libraries
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> But if I were a student, standing at one of 40 public terminals in my 
> library, the only accountable person you can trace is the campus IT 
> administrator.
> 
> This is the person who signed an agreement with an ISP that he/she would 
> validate all users, so any abuse could be traced. Since I neither make 
> nor want my users to have to sign on, I, as the campus IT person, am in 
> deep doo-doo if a user abuses hotmail.

It looks to me as if the headers of this message only contain information 
pertaining to the path the message took from the list server at sunsite 
to me, and not the the original posting's path from workstation to 
hotmail to sunsite.  I believe the listproc software strips the original 
headers from outbound messages.

However, I seem to recall that at a previous job I received a complaint 
about harassing email sent from one of our workstations via a web-based 
email service.  The headers in that case did indeed show the IP of 
our workstation.

Chuck
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Chuck Bearden                                   cbearden at rice.edu
Electronic Resources Librarian
Fondren Library--MS44                        713 / 527-8101 x3634
Rice University                              713 / 737-5859 (fax)
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251-1892
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