Allowing Downloads

[Mike Mitchell]

Tom,
	We don't really allow downloads here. Patrons can Save As to A: but that's
about it. I use a combination of Fortress to prevent saving to C: and
disallow executing from A: (among many other things), Winselect to lock
down the Destop and applications, and now, thanks to the suggestions on
this list, Public Browser to lock down IE5.5. In fact, I switched everyone
from Netscape 4.08 to IE5.5 just so we could use Public Browser. Also told
Winselect to disallow addresses that start with ftp:// or file://.

Michael Mitchell
Systems Librarian
Lithgow Public Library
Augusta, ME
mitchmd at lithgow.lib.me.us 

At 09:33 AM 4/25/01 -0700, Tom Ryan wrote:
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>Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:35:34 -0500
>From: "Tom Ryan" <tryan at server.silo.lib.ia.us>
>To: <web4lib at webjunction.org>
>Subject: Allowing Downloads
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>We are constantly having problems with patrons downloading files from =
>the internet to the public terminals.
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>We currently do not have a policy against downloads, and would like to =
>know what other librarys do about downloads.
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>I would like as many responses as I can get.
>
>Thanks,
>Tom Ryan
>Computer Systems Tech.
>Council Bluffs Public Library
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