[dev] server pref

[Jon Parise]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:01:36PM -0700, Max Kalika wrote:

> > Aside from the caching problems, why wouldn't we want to
> > track the server as a preference?
> 
> I'm trying to figure out what puprose it serves since there's a
> list of servers to log into on the login screen.  Another
> problem, besides caching, is if someone has the wrong server in
> their preferences they can never log into the correct one
> because the pref overrides the login screen selection.
 
True.  Even if the server list is hidden from the login screen,
we have other mechanisms in place to determine the user's correct
server.

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Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member