IP-PUB - Infopeople Public Service Archive: Re: Free email

Re: Free email

LAPL Sylmar Br (libsylm1@CERF.NET)
Wed, 4 Sep 1996 16:38:23 -0700

I have been playing with Hotmail. It is easy to use BUT I think it has a
serious privacy breech. It works in internet. You have a log on and a
password which are protected. You can and should logoff the site when you
are finished. HOWEVER---you can use Back or Forward to step thru pages.
This means that whatever you looked at is still available. No one can send
or receive from you address (if you log off), but they can see everything
you have seen just by clicking on back (or forward). I am not sure what the
exposure is if you don't logoff from the site.

It could be that I just haven't figured out how to "erase" pages. Unless
you can, I would not recommend it for public use---especially where the
connection is on all day.

kelley

>We've received two messages regarding the same service. See below...
>
>Sender: Carole Leita <leita@netcom.com>
>Subject: Free email
>
>Have any of you been using or recommending HoTMaiL - free email from the web
>- (http://www.hotmail.com) to your public Internet access users?
>
>Check out the review from Web Fanatic
(http://www.cobb.com/webfan/index.htm) at:
>
>http://www.cobb.com/webfan/002/fan002.htm
>
>Thanks for the tip from Cecily Thomas, LAPL.
>
>Carole
>_________________________________
>Carole Leita, leita@netcom.com, Internet/Reference Librarian
>Berkeley Public Library, http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/bpl/
>2090 Kittredge St., Berkeley, CA 94704
>Voice: 510-644-6100 x313, Fax: 510-644-1145
>
>* * * * *
>
>Sender: lhyman@mail.sdsu.edu (Linda Hyman)
>Subject: free e-mail service...
>
>http://www.hotmail.com/ - Hot Mail says it provides free e-mail. Does
>anyone have experience with this? Would it provide e-mail access for
>patrons and students and relieve libraries of the administration details?
>
>Linda Woods Hyman-Education First Initiative
>Pacific Bell/San Diego State University
>Dept. of Educational Technology
>San Diego CA 92182 (619) 594-4414
>e-mail: lhyman@mail.sdsu.edu
>http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired
>
>
>
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