On Mar 22, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
Otherwise the places I've been to have either had a user agreement page or nothing. I have gotten into the habit at such places of opening the browser and just pulling up any old page to let their system redirect it to their page. At home, most of the time, my first move is to pull up e-mail but that just stalls if you have to go to the user agreement page first, as at hotels and such.
The UA has a similar open public, WiFi access, you have to open a web browser and agree to anything before it lets you on. Once on you can use Email, VPN, etc. This I can live with, especially if I'm told about it.
Several of the places we stayed at last summer (we took a three week road trip up to the pacific northwest and back) had such systems, and almost all of them were platform agnostic. Heck we stayed at a little hole-in-the-wall place in Boron, California a couple years ago, and they had working WiFi.
What I don't understand is why they hit you with the page everytime you connect. They should be able to remember the MAC address and skip the agreement page after the first time.
Because this system doesn't maintain a state, only a 'connection allowed' status...in other words, it never does remember your MAC address only that since the beginning of this session you agreed.
Remembering MAC addresses gets into legally weedy territory. How long to remember them? Is this subpoena-able information? Someone could argue that no agreement on re-connecting means that the agreement is null and void, and they'd have a pretty solid argument.
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