[1309] in IS Home Pages
IS-HOME SUGGESTION: Kerberized Fetch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jon@bazilians.org)
Sat Jun 10 01:13:03 2000
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 01:12:51 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200006100512.BAA10234@salticus-peckhamae.mit.edu>
From: jon@bazilians.org
To: is-home@MIT.EDU (IS Webmasters)
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Suggestions (provide URL): http://web.mit.edu/is/pubs/ns-54/new/
On the referenced page, you provide a Kerberized version of Fetch. You state that it is compatible with MIT Kerberos. You permit anyone to download it.
When the unsuspecting victim then goes to download MIT Kerberos, however (http://web.mit.edu/is/help/kerberos/kerbformac.html), they are informed that "The MIT Kerberos for Macintosh (v2.5.1) installer is available _only_ for members of the MIT community."
This is both counterproductive and cruel. If you are going to insist upon restricting access to half of a product, the least you can do is be consistent and upfront, restrict access to all of it, and announce at the top of the first page that you're doing so.
(Needless to say, I would much prefer that you not restrict it at all, but it's not my call to make.)
Please fix this, one way or the other.
Thanks --
jon
Referring-URL: http://web.mit.edu/is/pubs/ns-54/new/#RTFToC11
