[2]. If it's facing the public then floppy disks are a bad idea - let's start a virus collection shall we?
rather than carry lots of floppies around building up a massive virus challenge for any ict system.
Virus? What's that? What's a floppy disc got to do with it? OK - I admit, I know the answers, but they don't concern me. The two statements above are relevant only in a Windows environment. I'm perfectly happy to allow floppy discs anywhere and everywhere with no checks and no virus protection software of any sort anywhere either, except what came with systems. Dangers to my system are going to come in along our 24-hour network connection, not through floppy discs. But it's much better anyway to build a system such as ours with 24-hour connectivity and the ability to log in from anywhere to transfer files. If FTP has to be blocked by the firewall, your users can email the files to or from themselves, or use SSH if they know how. All these facilities (apart from the 24-hour connection!) are provided free by the system you propose. -- Christopher Dawkins, Felsted School, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3JG 01371-820527 or 07798 636725 cchd@felsted.essex.sch.uk