[techtalk] Bad surfing habbits part two

Elizabeth moiraine at qwest.net
Sun May 27 20:45:00 EST 2001


Liese wrote:

<snip>
 
> James wrote :
> "Beware of driving your users to using a webmail service, though; if you
> stop them using your mail system, they could switch to Hotmail or similar."
> I have disabled Hotmail (and others) on our proxy server. This has saved us
> huge amount of surfing time.. :) Really, some users were on this site for
> more then 200 hours a month, refreshing often.

mail.yahoo.com is the yahoo mail site.  Maybe if you disallowed all the
others
but allowed this one domain than people could use that?  That way, they
can use the mail, but not peruse the incredibly huge amount of other
features
that yahoo intices people with.  Is their a similar domain for hotmail
or
is it the huge query string dealy? 
If they had access to the other mail services, maybe that would prevent 
them from hogging all of your bandwidth.  It might also encourage them
to 
access all the questionable emails through those services.

> Greetings,
> liese
> 
> Ps: im sorry for the occasional spelling error.. english isnt my native
> language..
> 
I didn't even notice.  :-)

Elizabeth




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