[jdev] service banners?

[Matthew A. Miller]

Hal Rottenberg wrote:
> 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...
> 

This sounds about right to me, too.



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