Re: Status of variable hierarchy changes?

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2000

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 31201
interpreted = N
texte = > Grant,> > please reconsider this. There's no way I want to go and change thousands> of pages (literally) just so they can run with WebCat 4. If I have to do> this, I'll probably reconsider the upgrade, other than the one copy I've> already paid for.It is clear that if they do not reconsider this, we will NOT upgrade toWebCatalog 4 either.We do not want to reprogram our pages either.We (our team) love the new features, but if we have to choose between movingon with what we have or going back to what we did and redo it, and thenwaste a lot of time, we'd rather choose the first solution.Defaulting to the so-called un-secure style will not make things lesssecure, on the contrary: if you promote the fact that WebCatalog has asecure feature, people will be more appealed to it.No SlashDot will publicize a security hole in WebCatalog, if this securityproblem is linked to a GREAT FEATURE of WebCatalog, and if a clean, welladvertized solution counters this security issue.Please reconsider your decisionWe have switched back to WC 3.0 on our development server and decided tostop beta testing WC 4.0, as our older pages do not work anymore.I cannot imagine the problem encountered by those who SOLD WebCatalogsolutions to people with WC 3.0, who in turn will upgrade to 4.0 and thenforce those programmers to redo their work.The water heater and the dryer in my house work on natural gas and if thecity decided to stop delivering natural gas for security reasons, I willhave to have somebody come and redo my heating system. It's exactly the samething.#############################################################This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to Send administrative queries to Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

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> Grant,> > please reconsider this. There's no way I want to go and change thousands> of pages (literally) just so they can run with WebCat 4. If I have to do> this, I'll probably reconsider the upgrade, other than the one copy I've> already paid for.It is clear that if they do not reconsider this, we will NOT upgrade toWebCatalog 4 either.We do not want to reprogram our pages either.We (our team) love the new features, but if we have to choose between movingon with what we have or going back to what we did and redo it, and thenwaste a lot of time, we'd rather choose the first solution.Defaulting to the so-called un-secure style will not make things lesssecure, on the contrary: if you promote the fact that WebCatalog has asecure feature, people will be more appealed to it.No SlashDot will publicize a security hole in WebCatalog, if this securityproblem is linked to a GREAT FEATURE of WebCatalog, and if a clean, welladvertized solution counters this security issue.Please reconsider your decisionWe have switched back to WC 3.0 on our development server and decided tostop beta testing WC 4.0, as our older pages do not work anymore.I cannot imagine the problem encountered by those who SOLD WebCatalogsolutions to people with WC 3.0, who in turn will upgrade to 4.0 and thenforce those programmers to redo their work.The water heater and the dryer in my house work on natural gas and if thecity decided to stop delivering natural gas for security reasons, I willhave to have somebody come and redo my heating system. It's exactly the samething.#############################################################This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to Send administrative queries to Nicolas Verhaeghe

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