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.new...@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



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