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Index of Subjects On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 Kevin_Georgison@MBnet.MB.CA wrote: > On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Edward Dyer wrote: > > > Hi John, > > > > On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, John Nemeth wrote: > > > > > I would like to get a general consensus on whether people think it > > > would be a good idea to restrict guest accounts to only reading > > > webpages on the local machine. We have done this in Victoria. The > > > reason for doing this is to encourage people to register for accounts > > > as opposed to just logging in as guests all the time. What does > > > everybody think? > > > > I think it's a great idea, provided that you have about 10,000 > > information providers on your site that users can browse. Otherwise > > I think the guest users are going to find it so restrictive that > > most will go away very dissatisfied. That's very _unlikely_ to > > encourage them to join, IMHO. > > > > Here in halifax, we found that guest usage amounted to 2% to 5% of > > the total logged in time, and about 5% of the total sessions on the > > text service. This has not changed since we have added PPP service > > (no guests on PPP.) Some guest users continued to operate that way > > for months, but eventually they want access to e-mail, and easier > > access to URL's, and either join or go to other providers. > > We here in Winnipeg we had the same guest usage from public access > terminals alone (read Libraries) while we were still happening. In > general guest usage was high in comparison to usages quoted above. We > had only a couple hundered Information Providers (IPs) and have > dwindled to about 20 active IPs since BSCN officially disolved two > years ago (Sat May 9 1998). [ the rest cut..] If my comments seemed somewhat incoherent thats because I am and they are. P.S. I was under the impression the csuite-dev was focused on the development of the software. This mail-list has become tainted with policy/politics more than core technical issues. (Winnipeg submitted a number of features and securtiy improvements years ago that never made it into the CSuite package until reports of exploits came about a year after our submittions. And I'm sure it wasn't even Winnipeg's contributions that made it into the security patches.) Yes I know the policy issues are impossible to avoid. If I could follow my own train of thought I would be considered a Genius! KG
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