On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Gregory Goddard wrote:
 I am wondering what you plan on doing about several thousand users who
 come back in the Fall wondering why they can't access their accounts.

Take an ad out in the student edition of the Alligator. Or at least get
them to print a small blurb about it.

Once students get use to it, you'll only have a few thousand a year that
will be new to the idea of their password expiring.


This does bring up the question, why isn't there a universal method or
protocol for doing this sort of notification? I assume GatorLink does
PPP. Well, PPP is a nice "carrier" protocol, so there should be some way
of having a message transmitted through PPP before the network connection
is negotiated.

Of course, that requires the end-user has a computer that recoginizes that
message protocol.

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