[jdev] service banners?

[Hal Rottenberg]

On 7/18/06, Jefferson Ogata <Jefferson.Ogata at noaa.gov> wrote:
> Is there any provision in XMPP or JEPs for service banners? By this I
> mean proper banners such as are supported by ssh2, as well as
> traditional protocols such as FTP and telnet. A requirement is that the
> banner be presented to the user before authentication. An MOTD doesn't
> qualify here.

May I ask why?  I totally understand the concept of having a login
banner such as the one that I install on my own Windows domains at
work.  Disclaimers and such.

Do you present a banner to users at login to a system?  Yes.

But do you then present a banner to the user at each subsequent
application they execute?  Do you show a banner when the user opens
their mail?  I think this is taking the concept a bit too far here.

Usually you'll see these banners at the point of entry as it were.  On
your local workstation or a remote server login.  But once you are in
it seems a bit superfluous.

Let me know if I'm off track...

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