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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What I'd like to see in the AppleShare of the 90's
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Date: 15 Jan 90 17:38:34 GMT
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> I don't feel this is transparent enough for the novice. If the
> server's gone, it's gone. You don't want to have to make the net admin
> guy run around to all the secretaries saying "hit the 'Don't Wait'
> button, the server's down" just after his server's croaked.

	I don't know how much this would complicate the protocol, but how
about if, when you mount a remote disk, the server sends to the client a
little bit of text, which could be set on a per-server or per-disk basis by
the system administrator.  When you get the "Server has gone down" dialog
box, it could include this piece of text.  A typical piece of text might be
"if you don't understand what this means, call Roy Smith at x822 and ask for
help".
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Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
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"My karma ran over my dogma"