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Re: Current thinking on gZephyr

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Thu Jul 20 12:17:26 2000

Message-Id: <200007201620.MAA01245@twelve-monkeys.helixcode.com>
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:42:55 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 12:20:22 -0400
From: Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>

> - Allowing people to log classes will likely create a political
>   problem for Ops. For example, if someone asks that class
>   seekrit-stuff be logged, how will Ops deal if the majority of
>   subscribers of seekrit-stuff don't want it to be logged.

Ops's official position last I knew is that they won't log or acl
classes for people other than IS because there's no way to know who
"owns" a given class. This is not a solvable problem in zephyr.

-- Dan

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