[16596] in Athena Bugs
user titles in olc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Wed Jan 13 12:59:04 1999
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:59:00 -0500
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-olc@MIT.EDU
I know olcd has a configfile somewhere that lets you tell it that
certain people should be referred to as "professor" or "consultant" or
"cake-baker" or whatever when they ask a question instead of just
"user".
It might be nice if it got a list of staff titles from Moira or
something so that when staff people ask questions, the consultants
notice that they aren't just Joe Random User.
This occurred to me when I was looking through some olc logs for
something and came across:
onetworks [16238]: melanie: can't access sloan network
Log Initiated for user Melanie J Gregerman (melanie@SCRUBBING-BUBBLES.MIT.EDU [0]).
which looks a lot different if you replace "user" with "Manager of
Network and Info Systems, Economics". Similarly, "user Roger A Roach",
which appears in many logs, is less telling than it perhaps ought to
be. :)
It would be easy to generate a data feed from Moira, given a file
format.
-- Dan
