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On Jun 19, 3:58am, Michael Smith wrote:
} 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 assume so.
} I'm personally against it, but not very strongly, and it would encourage
} registrations.
This is a site policy issue. I'm just trying to see if there is a
general consensus. So far, it appears to be evenly split.
} The only problem is that some "local machines" may go by many
} names. $SYS_ALIASES should be respected.
It would be implemented by usings Lynx's "-localhost" flag. So,
this is depending on Lynx to do the right thing, which is pretty
simple: allow file:// URL's and any http://<X>/ URL's where <X>
resolves to an address that it belongs to a local network interface.
}-- End of excerpt from Michael Smith
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