Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2001-05-29 Thread Peter Lairo
Gervase Markham wrote: >>All the messages in this thread make one thing clear: (1) the >>programmers are mostly against it. (2) The user are mostly for it. >> > > 1) is because when it becomes apparent that it's a terribly-insecure hacky > feature, it's the programmers who take the flak. see m

Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2001-05-29 Thread Gervase Markham
> All the messages in this thread make one thing clear: (1) the > programmers are mostly against it. (2) The user are mostly for it. 1) is because when it becomes apparent that it's a terribly-insecure hacky feature, it's the programmers who take the flak. You can't conclude 2), because users w

Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2001-05-29 Thread Peter Lairo
All the messages in this thread make one thing clear: (1) the programmers are mostly against it. (2) The user are mostly for it. It is therefore very clear that the programmers NEED client (users) oriented project managers that will TELL them what to program. Unfortunately, this discussion has

Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2001-05-15 Thread barney
Martijn Kluijtmans wrote: > And of course they don't want anybody to read their e-mail Seems to me that when encryption is turned on in password prefs, a password is required before you can access mail. Or doesn't it work like this any more?

Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2001-05-15 Thread Ben Bucksch
Martijn Kluijtmans wrote: > I just vote for it. > Think of the following situation: > In a family, every member wants to use Mozilla's, mail facilities > - Father gets confidential information from clients > - Daughter gets love letters by her friend > - Mother > enz. Yes, we had this disc

Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2001-05-14 Thread Martijn Kluijtmans
I just vote for it. Think of the following situation: In a family, every member wants to use Mozilla's, mail facilities - Father gets confidential information from clients - Daughter gets love letters by her friend - Mother enz. And of course they don't want anybody to read their e-mail, so

Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2001-05-14 Thread Ian Davey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Bucksch) wrote: >Peter Lairo wrote: > >> "User Profiles should be able to be protected with passwords." >> >> If you agree with the above statement, please vote for this BUG to be >> fixed here: >> >> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?

Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2001-05-14 Thread Francois Cartegnie
Ben Bucksch wrote: > Peter Lairo wrote: > >> "User Profiles should be able to be protected with passwords." >> >> If you agree with the above statement, please vote for this BUG to be >> fixed here: >> >> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16489 > > > Where do I vote for this bug get

Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2001-05-14 Thread Ben Bucksch
Peter Lairo wrote: > "User Profiles should be able to be protected with passwords." > > If you agree with the above statement, please vote for this BUG to be > fixed here: > > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16489 Where do I vote for this bug getting WONTFIX? :-)

Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2001-05-14 Thread Peter Lairo
"User Profiles should be able to be protected with passwords." If you agree with the above statement, please vote for this BUG to be fixed here: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16489 Even better, if you have the knowledge (unfortunately, I can't program) and interest, maybe you coul

Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2000-12-21 Thread Mitchell Stoltz
Peter, please remember that Mozilla is open-source. You probably won't get Netscape to add this feature, but there's nothing stopping you from writing it yourself or finding a competent hacker to write it for you. If you or your hacker have specific questions about how to go about doing this,

Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2000-12-21 Thread Ben Bucksch
Peter Lairo wrote: > Ben Bucksch wrote: > >> I think, many of those "brothers" are able to get beyond such a simple >> "security" protection. > > You're wrong. You obviously have little contact with "regular" people. Got me. I was born that smart, so I never went to school. > win2k > is too e

Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2000-12-21 Thread Peter Lairo
Ben Bucksch wrote: > Peter Lairo wrote: > > > Let's keep thing simple when possible. All most people need is a way to keep > > nosy teenage sisters from reading their brother's email and visa-versa. The VAST > > majority of PC users don't even know what a directory tree is. We've long passed > >

Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2000-12-19 Thread Ben Bucksch
Peter Lairo wrote: > Let's keep thing simple when possible. All most people need is a way to keep > nosy teenage sisters from reading their brother's email and visa-versa. The VAST > majority of PC users don't even know what a directory tree is. We've long passed > the era when only computer geek

Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2000-12-19 Thread Bob
Totally agree. All I'm looking for is a way to keep my kids out of my well organized(!) bookmarks, not to be reading my email (accidently or otherwise) and to maintain my own setup/page display/Sidebar when I get to use the home computer. If your going to have profiles/profile management at

Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Lairo
Let's keep thing simple when possible. All most people need is a way to keep nosy teenage sisters from reading their brother's email and visa-versa. The VAST majority of PC users don't even know what a directory tree is. We've long passed the era when only computer geeks used computers. Mitchell

Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2000-12-15 Thread Mitchell Stoltz
I'm inclined to agree with Ian. We try to steer clear of features which provide a false sense of security. Also, this statement makes no sense to me: Peter Lairo wrote: > Those who are willing to read through hundreds of pages of difficult to > read > text files to read our mail will likely n

Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know you want this feature!

2000-12-15 Thread Peter Lairo
"User Profiles should be able to be protected with passwords." If you agree with the above statement, please vote for this BUG to be fixed here: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16489 Even better, if you have the knowledge (unfortunately, I can't program) and interest, maybe you coul