[WEB4LIB] Re: blocking the use of webmail on a public access pc

[Dan Lester]

Well, here is some added info.  The list at
http://www.riverofdata.com/tools/blacklist.htm will be updated in the
next couple of days.

That being said, here is some added information.  In the last couple
days the folks at csimo.com have been extremely threatening about the
great damage done to them by their mail.csimo.com being listed.  I'll
go ahead and remove them since I'm not interested in a protracted
legal battle (unless all the list members come up with massive
donations).  They have no legal basis for their complaints, but
sometimes money talks.  Hell, it almost always talks.

Anyway, if there is interest I'll forward one message to the list,
containing the thread between those folks and me in the last few days.

cheers

dan

Saturday, July 07, 2001, 1:14:38 PM, you wrote:

CM> Galway Library wrote:
>> We wish to block the use of webmail or web based email on a selection
>> of our
>> pcs. How is this best achieved? ...

CM> Our library uses a modified version of an "automatic proxy configuration
CM> file", a javascript filter that can be used with both Netscape Navigator and
CM> Internet Explorer. I adapted the approach of Tim Kambitsch at the Dayton,
CM> Ohio (USA) public library:

CM> http://www.dayton.lib.oh.us/~kambitsch/netscape/bogus-proxy-server.html




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