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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:00:12 -0300 (ADT)
From: "Douglas J. McCann" <aa935@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: Mark Ronald Rushton <Mark@chebucto.ns.ca>
cc: "David L. Potter" <potter@chebucto.ns.ca>, ccn-tech@chebucto.ns.ca, ccn-webmaster@chebucto.ns.ca
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Hi all

All good points.

I'll concede that security issues should be parmount.  However, I think
we should continue to strive for a more friendly user interface.

With the invention of the automobile, you had to be mechanically inclined
to own or operate one. Today, many drivers don't know the difference
between a manifold and a muffler. Internet users are heading in the same
direction - many don't know (or want to know) the difference between
e-mail and form-mail.

I note on some of the editors pages that there are facilities to send
on-line e-mail queries, etc. On-line surveys also utilize
form-mail. I am inclined to classify these processes as an
equivilent security risk with on-line subscribe/unsubscribe.

I'll withdraw my request for a simplfied subscribe/unsubscribe, but I will
also throw down a challenge to our technical membership to resolve the
issue. Call the project "Subscribe for Dummies".

Doug

 

On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Mark Ronald Rushton wrote:

> 
> 
> Gentlemen,
> 
> As those who will be participating in the ccn-webmaster list will be
> members of the CCN, might we not simply introduce a login feature using
> the CCN user ID and password to enable the submission of a subscribe
> request?  It's already in place for access to the IPDB via the web.
> 
> Alternately, we could look at the system that eGroups / OneList uses,
> which has people subscribe via a web-interface.  The moderator of the list
> receives email notification that subscribers "are pending".  The moderator
> then logs into his section of the site, and approves or denies the post.
> 
> FYI,
> Mark
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Mark Rushton
> Community Support & Development Editor
> Chebucto Community Network (CCN)
> http://chebucto.ns.ca/~Mark/
> --------------------------------------
> 

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