Pine controversy

[Joe Mabel]

IMHO, if the library settles on one recommended way to get email, we 
support it.  If they don't, we pick one Windows-based way that is on their 
machines and we support it.

As for other services, which are we concerned with?  Increasingly, SCN is a 
website, and can be accessed just fine from anywhere.  If they are ftp'ing, 
the Windows approach to ftp is pretty decent.  We probably should be 
teaching how to telnet to SCN for those who care.

Do many of our users use SCN for anything other than email and Web access? 
If so, do we have any idea what?

-----Original Message-----
From:	Kenneth Applegate [SMTP:starsrus at scn.org]
Sent:	Tuesday, September 29, 1998 8:34 AM
To:	Joe Mabel
Cc:	'Rich Littleton'; 'Lois Beedle'; 'Kurt Cockrum'; scn at scn.org
Subject:	RE: Pine controversy

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Joe Mabel wrote:

> That's all well & good, but if we say we don't give a damn about library
> users, we don't give a damn about anyone with access to Windows, in my
> view, at that point we become a hobbyist organization, and this isn't my
> hobby.
>

OK, so we will have a bunch of library computers running Windows 98 and
using IE or Netscape for a web based access to their services. Does that
mean we set up SCN email so it can use the email features of whatever
browser the library uses? Or do we try to get the library to install some
particular dedicated email program on all their machines?

And how do users and visitors access other services on SCN, using the
library environment?

Ken

Ken Applegate           How do you identify astronomers from Seattle?
<starsrus at scn.org>      By the windshield wipers on their telescopes!

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