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On Jun 19, 1:49am, Edward Dyer wrote:
} On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, John Nemeth wrote:
}
} > I would like to get a general consensus on whether people think it
} > would be a good idea to restrict guest accounts to only reading
} > webpages on the local machine. We have done this in Victoria. The
} > reason for doing this is to encourage people to register for accounts
} > as opposed to just logging in as guests all the time. What does
} > everybody think?
}
} I think it's a great idea, provided that you have about 10,000
} information providers on your site that users can browse. Otherwise
I don't think that is necessary. The idea of the guest account is
to give people a taste of what they can get with the community network;
not to give them completely free, unlimited, unrestricted,
unauthenticated access to the internet.
} I think the guest users are going to find it so restrictive that
} most will go away very dissatisfied. That's very _unlikely_ to
} encourage them to join, IMHO.
As I noted, we implemented this policy in Victoria a long time
ago, with satisfactory results. I'm not saying that every site will be
the same, just that we do have some empirical data.
}-- End of excerpt from Edward Dyer
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