restricting guest accounts to reading local webpages

Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 15:51:00 -0400 (AST)
From: Michael Smith <michael@csuite.ns.ca>
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
Cc: csuite-dev@chebucto.ns.ca
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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'm guessing this was the original reasoning between disallowing g)oto
random URLs for anonymous users.

I'm personally against it, but not very strongly, and it would encourage
registrations.

The only problem is that some "local machines" may go by many
names. $SYS_ALIASES should be respected.

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