On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Vadim Zeitlin wrote: >FN> You are free to do whatever you want, but I am glad to see that >FN> c-client will never grow such defects. > > This would be a defect in a server. I still have no idea why allowing >the user to override a badly broken server behaviour from his client is a >defect. And so far I still see no reason for a user (knowing that he is >careless enough to use POP, to use clear text auth, and to use such >broken server) to not do it. And no other workaround, except for >switching to another client.
Leaving the right or wrong question for a moment, I can just imagine how confused my John/Jane Doe users would be if I were to offer them a choice of overriding the broken server. The support desk will be swarmed by confused users. If they CARE about the danger of sending passwords in clear text, they wouldn't have used those ISPs-with-broken-servers in the first place. You may have covered your behind when you offer users the choice of "Do you really want to do this?" but it'll confuse them more than anything else. -- N. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ For information about this mailing list, and its archives, see: http://www.washington.edu/imap/c-client-list.html ------------------------------------------------------------------
