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

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Lairo
Why are you assuming that most users are in a corporate network environment ("assuming the admin knows what they're doing")? Also, suggesting PGP as a solution completely misses the reality of most users not being able to install/configure this complex software (I am an "advanced" user and unistal

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

2000-12-18 Thread Simon P. Lucy
At 18:12 18/12/2000 +0100, Peter Lairo wrote: >Braden McDaniel wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter Lairo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > It is an optimal solution if you define optimal to be the best possible > > > cost versus benefit. Most users use win9x which has virt

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

2000-12-18 Thread Peter Lairo
Braden McDaniel wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter Lairo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > It is an optimal solution if you define optimal to be the best possible > > cost versus benefit. Most users use win9x which has virtually NO > > "Permission management". > > But I'm fairly c

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

2000-12-17 Thread Adam Lock
Peter Lairo wrote: > > It is an optimal solution if you define optimal to be the best possible cost > versus benefit. Most users use win9x which has virtually NO "Permission > management". Anyhow, the password would be far from not doing "anything". 99% > of unintentional or novice snooping is hi

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

2000-12-15 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter Lairo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is an optimal solution if you define optimal to be the best possible > cost versus benefit. Most users use win9x which has virtually NO > "Permission management". But I'm fairly certain you can get utilities that are d

[RAPIDLY BECOMING OFFTOPIC]Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You know youwant this feature!

2000-12-15 Thread Simon P. Lucy
At 17:02 15/12/2000 +0100, Sebastian Späth wrote: >Simon P. Lucy wrote: > > >Please vote for this bug at > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16489 > > > > A, but not all the votes are counted ;-) > >Yes, but I strongly suspect that they are mechanically counted. We >should call the

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

2000-12-15 Thread Sebastian Späth
Simon P. Lucy wrote: > >Please vote for this bug at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16489 > > A, but not all the votes are counted ;-) Yes, but I strongly suspect that they are mechanically counted. We should call the supreme court to see if we can manually count them. SCNR, Seb

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

2000-12-15 Thread Simon P. Lucy
Flogging dead horses :-) At 15:04 15/12/2000 +0100, Peter Lairo wrote: >"Simon P. Lucy" wrote: > > > > Personally I think its a less than optimal solution. Permission management > > of files belongs in the underlying operating system and providing a > > password which doesn't actually do anyt

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

2000-12-15 Thread Peter Lairo
"Simon P. Lucy" wrote: > At 13:20 15/12/2000 +0100, Peter Lairo wrote: > >Braden McDaniel wrote: > > > > > > You want a placebo and Conrad thinks it's a bad idea. I agree with him. > > > If someone does create a patch that does as you describe, I hope > > > mozilla.org has the sense to reject it,