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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jan 31 15:06:57 1995
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, reidmp@MIT.EDU, ellis@MIT.EDU, warlord@MIT.EDU,
linux-dev@MIT.EDU, nschmidt@MIT.EDU, ppt@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Jan 1995 15:03:36 EST."
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 15:06:21 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I don't have a vested interest in this personally and am open to
> suggestion- is there some way to reconcile making "add maple; maple"
> work on Linux machines with a way to make obvious the fact that
> Linux Third Party software is not being supported in the "standard"
> Athena way? (And still have some degree of access security).
It sounds like Naomi is most concerned about the support issues here.
I wasn't able to talk to her about it today (she was teaching a class
until 1:30, when I had to leave), so I'll bring up the issue here.
Wouldn't it be better just to have a message at startup, telling
people to send questions and problem reports to linux-help@mit.edu
intead of using OLC? Simply having users do "add linux" and "maple"
isn't likely to give them this information, and will probably just
generate OLC questions of the form, "Where do I find Maple under
Linux?"
