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re Ian Winships's message: > You might be intrigued to learn from Eva Pascoe's column in yesterday's > Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/net/980810ne/story2.html) > that many UK universities are blocking access to US Internet sites since > network charging came in last week and so limiting students information access > to 'the Web sites of their local rag and a list of country walks in the Lake > district'!. > > This was news to me - I have mailed her suggesting her article is misleading. > Is anyone really blocking access? > > A pinch of salt is required here! For the University of Edinburgh's policy see their Computing Services homepage at: http://www.ucs.ed.ac.uk/bits/1998/August_1998/item2.shtml Basically it involves switching to access via proxy caches - but it did worry us library types when we first heard of it! Keith Taylor Law & Europa Library University of Edinburgh Old College South Bridge Edinburgh EH8 9YL Scotland tel.: +44 (0)131 650 2043 fax : +44 (0)131 650 6343 email [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%