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Re: Suggestion for improvement
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 3 Sep 1999 17:16:21 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> writes:
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> > What I would like is to distinguish the notion of machine and person...
[Some snippage]
> Hmm, I must be misunderstanding your meaning -- that sounds contradictory.
[More snippage]
Didn't you two just say the same thing? It's better for people if their usage
history isn't tied to a specific machine.
> A cool feature (that I think I've seen at least one place) is auto-logout --
> where if you're at the library or someplace, the server gives you a
> temporary cookie instead of a permanent one when you log in. That way, it
> disappears when you end the browser session, even if you don't explicitly
> log out. You could also protect yourself by asking the server to require
> you to re-log in if you hadn't accessed any pages for some time period that
> you had specified at login time. Or you could also protect yourself by
> asking the server not to honor logins from other machines in case you'd left
> yourself logged in somewhere (I guess that's actually just a special case of
> changing your password).
Another cool feature: explicit logout. Click the "logout" button on the
webpage, and the in-memory cookie goes away. Also good for the public-kiosk
user.
> > Now, multiple browser profiles do help that some, you
> > can have different sets of cookies by profile and Taya uses a different
> > profile than I do.
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> That's even better yet -- cookies plus separate (possibly roving) profiles.
Not really, if the cookie is still machine-bound. The convenience of not
having to login to Lugnet is nice, but logging in (once per session) is not
that big of a deal. I'd rather be able to log in from anywhere, and have the
Lugnet server remember which messages I've looked at, and which I haven't.
But I've solved that problem for myself--I've got Zip drives on all my
machines, and I keep my newsreader files on a Zip disk. If I ever *must* use
the web interface (on a single machine, at least), it's not *that* hard to
find where I left off reading.
Steve
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