Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:53:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: hoek@hwcn.org (Tim Vanderhoek) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hoek@hwcn.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fnord0: disabled, not probed. Message-ID: <199710130153.SAA09040@usr03.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971012212521.24668A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at Oct 12, 97 09:31:13 pm
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> > I think "Little Johnny" will be more interested in a login prompt than > > if his probe messages say "disabled" or whatever... > > Great! So we agree then that it is more important to show Johnny > messages which will impair his ability to login than to show him > (relatively) meaningless "disabled" messages. :) If he's going to ignore "disbled" messages in favor of "login", then all he cares about is "login:". That means he can get any number of messsages prior to "login:", and it won't matter. This argues *for* "disabled" messages (they will be ingnored anyway). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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