At 9:33 PM -0800 12/7/04, Mark Wilson wrote:
How many people really send mail from public places using someone else's
computer? Not many that I've seen.
In my travels to Europe and Russia I've discovered the internet cafes are
HUGELY popular and everyone is sending email from public places using public
computers. I would say the amount of people in the world doing that is
quite large.
Wrong metric. There are a lot of very popular behaviors that should
be discouraged whenever possible, NOT accommodated and lubricated. A
sizable fraction of mail users will open any attachment they get, so
the approach of making the popular act slick brought us mailers that
auto-open attachments.
Using the Internet from a public access Windows machine that is
administered with an eye to keeping costs down is unsound, unsafe
behavior. It might be acceptable if all of those machines were
managed by a skilled team of professionals and/or were running
systems designed to shield themselves and their overall user
population from the recklessness of one user, but that's generally
not so.
Breaking that sort of behavior in a consistent standard way would be
a very good thing.
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Bill Cole
bill(_at_)scconsult(_dot_)com
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