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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:39:32 EST
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- From: Elliott Coates <coates@UMUC.UMD.EDU>
- Subject: RE: Easy Suggestion System
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- >My boss just asked me to think about using our BANYAN VINES LAN to implement
- >an organization wide suggestion system. We are running VINES 4.0 presently
- >with short term plans to upgrade to 4.11 and then on to 5.5. We use VINES
- >Mail and a bulletin board system called Tackboard. Initially, I wondered
- >about setting up a generic account without password that could be severely
- >restricted in rights; e.g., only use of a mail or Tackboard application that
- >could be limited to a single address account or private board. Our LAN folkes
- >did not give me much hope in this area.
-
- >Anyway, I thought that I would pitch it to the using community to see if there
- >were any ideas out there. At a minimum, any solution would have to provide:
-
- > - Anonymity of the user/sender.
- > - Ease of use and access.
- > - Ability to protect the inputs (suggestions) from common view.
- > - Security from misuse of the LAN. We don't want anyone to be able
- > to send inappropriate messages to the victim of their choice.
-
- >We will consider buying or developing an application in house, but we would
- >prefer not to.
-
- >Robert Glitz
- >(301) 981-8694
- >R=GLITZ%XOC%NGBA@ANGRC.ANG.AF.MIL
-
- I don't have a full, hard plan but one thing might be to have Tackboard and the
- user account in the same group, with only those two in the group. This way you
- could leverage the similarity of group for the two in terms of how Vines
- relates objects in the same group with respect to security.
-
- This works the other way in that you can keep other objects out on the basis
- of the group affinity Tackboard and the user account have versus their
- dis-affinity to the rest of the world.
-
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- | Elliott Coates, washington dc |
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