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re: Changing top page for certificates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ginny Williams)
Tue Aug 25 13:18:10 1998
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:16:21 -0500
To: fizz@MIT.EDU (Robyn Fizz)
From: Ginny Williams <ginnyw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: is-home@MIT.EDU, Rob Smyser <smyser@MIT.EDU>
Everyone,
I agree with Oliver. The change may be justified but the timing is bad.
Too many people will be using the existing documentation in the next few
weeks to make a change. It could turn into a large support problem. Can
we table it until mid-September?
ginny
>To: Robyn Fizz <fizz@MIT.EDU>
>Cc: is-home@MIT.EDU, smyser@MIT.EDU
>Cc: oliver thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
>Reply-To: oliver thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
>X-Transcription: digital
>Subject: re: Changing top page for certificates
>Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:28:01 EDT
>From: oliver thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
>
>
>i have a few reservations, not about the change in general, but about the
>timing. every incoming student will need to register for her athena
>account and potentially get certificates sometime over the next week. not
>knowing exactly what links to the current index.html file expecting to
>find the guid, and how much printed documentation refers to the guide, i'd
>be more comfortable waiting until the first week of classes to make this
>change. as an example, the athena tutorial contains step-by-step
>instructions including screen shots of what is supposed to happen when one
>goes to web/is/help/cert/ so at least users working off the paper copy
>will expect the guide to be there, not the table of contents.
>
>what do others think?
>
>oliver
>
