[2716] in Athena Bugs
Re: surrpetitious mail from olc_answers (browser)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Mon Aug 7 09:26:50 1989
From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Chris VanHaren <vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-olc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 07 Aug 89 09:04:52 -0400.
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 89 09:26:27 EDT
>Are you equally offended that the number of unique logins is tracked
>also? Kerberos can give this information easily, and I know that it has
>been done in the past. The mail to carla is an attempt to give us the
>same sort of information that kerberos gives.
>Why is this a bug? It works perfectly well... I don't understand why
>you sent it to "bugs"...
it is a bug because the user has no choice but to accept this
undocumented behaviour. it is a de-facto standard that programs which
want to record usage information are suitably documented and notify the
user of its intention; see the test runs of the "whatsup" program for
an example of this.
right now the browser seems to do neither. i suggest you fix this.
-- henry mensch
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