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From: dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (David Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What I'd like to see in the AppleShare of the 90's
Summary: Broadcast just ain't enough.
Keywords: accounting, communications
Message-ID: <583@gargoyle.uchicago.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 90 01:08:41 GMT
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In a previous article, I complained about AppleShare's lack of tools for
either accounting (tracking users' activities) and communicating with
said users over the network.  Several folks recommended Broadcast.  While
I like Broadcast and use it on my machine, it doesn't address the basic
question, which is:


    How do you communicate with clients (users) when they are either
    anonymous (logged in as guest) or off in buildings which are miles
    away?  It's a pain to make sure everybody has broadcast installed
    if you've got users spread all over the place, and it's impossible
    if those users are anonymous.  Moreover, if some of your users are
    logged in anonymously, by definition it's impossible to tell who
    they are so that you may send them messages.


In short, while Broadcast is a partial solution (at least to one of
my complaints), it doesn't address what I see as the root of
the problem: AppleShare itself doesn't provide such tools, and it
should.  I just don't see that adding these functions to AppleShare
would be that difficult.  

(And we are after all saying what we think the future AppleShare
should have...)
-- 

David Walton		Internet: dwal@tank.UChicago.EDU
University of Chicago   {  Any opinions herein are my own, not      }
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