Concerning hotmail with Cobequid Community Network

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:24:49 -0400
To: David Murdoch <murdoch@csuite.ns.ca>, Gary Shearman <shearman@victoria.tc.ca>
From: Peter Morgan <ae112@chebucto.ns.ca>
Cc: aa075@cobequidnet.ns.ca, bc519@freenet.toronto.on.ca, Development of Chebucto Suite <csuite-dev@chebucto.ns.ca>,
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Gary and David,

I think both some sort of "instant activation" and "access everywhere"
capability is really important. 

What if worked together on something? Is there a way to fast track a 40%
solution? Emu would probably be negotiable on the "fee" if we were going to
do it for a whole country!

The legal issues are moot as far as I can tell. Our lawyer has said an "I
Agree" button is sufficient. I applied for a mortgage recently from the TD
Bank on-line and they had an "I Agree this is the same as signing a written
document".

Whose security are we thinking of? If it is ours, then we should be very
careful. If it is the potential user, we should just be super explicit that
they need to be careful. I think we should be careful about protecting
people from themselves to such an extent that we limit what we can offer.

At 05:22 PM 29/11/98 Sunday, David Murdoch wrote:
>On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Gary Shearman wrote:
>
>> Funny you should ask!
>> 
>> We (The British Columbia Community Networks Association) are planning on
>> implementing a service of this kind for community nets in BC, using our
>> Provincial Server (which is running on Csuite).
>> 
>> I don't see why it couldn't be done for the whole country, given the proper
>> support.
>> 
>> I'm not talking about an exact duplicate of Hotmail here, rather a service
>> that would give everyone a chance to access their home e-mail accounts 
>> from anywhere on the net.  This would be supplemented by the opportunity
>> to apply for an account if you lived where there wasn't a local community
>> net that was running a POP server.
>> 
>> Gary Shearman
>
>We would be really interested in offering a similar service in Nova Scotia
>and in particular on CCN. We've been looking at Emumail type software that
>costs money and have been thinking of the security, legal and other  
>issues related to providing such a service.
>
>Regards,
>David Murdoch CET
>--
>     HRM Regional Community Access Project (CAP) Coordinator, 
>     Operations Manager and Technical Coordinator, Chebucto Community Net
>         http://www.chebucto.ns.ca - 902 422 2110 voice
>	http://www.csuite.ns.ca
>
>

Peter Morgan
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