I guess a better way to distinguish is between public terminals (which
have a different set of usage issues) and private terminals.
On Aug 6, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> Eric Hellman wrote:
>> There are two usage scenarios.
>> 1. use of resources through a computer in the library or on a campus
>> 2. use of resources from home through a proxy server in the library.
>>
>> I was thinking more about the second scenario.
>
> What do you see as different between 1 and 2? (I see them as being
> pretty much the same.)
> kc
>
>>
>> On Aug 5, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Nate Vack wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Glen Newton - NRC/CNRC CISTI/ICIST
>>> Research<glen.newton_at_nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It may/should help protect the user's privacy from the server end
>>>> (from
>>>> Google), not the client end.
>>>
>>> Yeah. When I use Google Books in a library, how would Google know
>>> who I am?
>>>
>>> Of course, they would know if I were to log in, but proxying
>>> doesn't solve that.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> -Nate
>>
>>
Eric Hellman
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Received on Thu Aug 06 2009 - 10:54:44 EDT