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Message-ID: <200405120106.i4C16UWl015554@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: Wireless ISPs
On Tue, 11 May 2004 18:08:24 EDT, Jeff Workman <jworkman@...pworks.org> said:
> I make pop3s and imaps available for email users as well as the unencrypted
> versions. When I tell somebody how to setup their account I tell them that
> they should use the SSL version, and since 99% of them are using Outlook
> Express there's no reason they shouldn't, right? My mail logs show maybe 3
> people, excluding myself, that use imaps/pop3s, and I am the only user that
> uses STARTTLS with SMTP.
We just said "We're making it available for use on <date>, and we're turning
off the non-encrypted version on <date+6 months>". Users will get motivated
once they realize that failure to be motivated means that they *will* get
inconvenienced a lot more than the inconvenience of reconfiguring their
client...
This of course isn't an option unless your user community is a captive audience
(university, corporate, etc - you ISPs will need a different way to fix it)....
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