At 9:13 AM 4/1/96, Dave Wolfe wrote:
>[ Alan Millar writes: ]
>>
>> Here are some ramblings about the private options. Somebody kick me
>> if this is already in 1.94a3
>>
>> The current "private" options (private_who, private_get, etc) are
>> inadequate as they are.
>
>Wilson Chan's thoughts on revamping the entire access interface to
Actually, Chan's name really is "Chan Wilson"; SGI's mailers often do funky
things, but they aren't reversing Chan's name...
>be more coherent hold a lot of appeal, but I doubt that anything all
>encompassing as the Netscape server uses will be simpler and easier for
>the clueless to configure. Allow/deny probably stretches the limits of
>comprehension of a lot of folks I've seen asking for help. I'd like to
>see an allow/deny scheme that uses regexps like [no]advertise (and makes
>better, if not complete, use of Perl's regexps), but that's probably
>also too much unless the regexps were in addition to lists of simple
>text strings.
I'm sorry, but I strongly disagree that the management side of the system
should be "dumbed down" in order to accomodate clueless dweebs who'll never
be able to figure it out anyway. It should definitely be made more
consistent than it is now, but I don't see why advanced list owners should
sacrifice functionality in order to accomodate novice owners.
Under Chan's plan, novice owners could be accomodated with pre-defined
templates covering common cases.
-Brent
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