Can users browse Usenet newsgroups or send mail from Netscape?
Yes. This a built in function of Netscape and cannot be changed. As currently configured, users can send mail but in order to read news they would have to go to the Preferences menu item and enter the name of a news host. We trust that most library users are not going to know the name of the Cornell newshost off the top of their heads and will not bother trying to get news to work. Some concern has been expressed throughout the development that allowing users to send mail from a kiosk is a bad idea because it is essentially anonymous and allows the user to send prank messages. The simple response to this is that this is absolutely no different than using Eudora. I could configure my Eudora to say I was Frank H.T. Rhodes with NetID fr1 and send mail like that. The reason for this is that the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) that Cornell uses does not support authentication for sending messages. 3.6 Wow! I can have multiple sessions open at once and switch between them That wasnt phr
