Fwd: Access to UNIX-SPIRS

[Kimberly Parker <kimberly.parker@yale.edu>]

I don't believe anyone actually was using this, but just in case...

We never built daemons to the silverplatter files, so unless someone was
actually entering userids and passwords, there shouldn't have been any use
of telnet silverplatter.
--Kim

>As detailed in SilverPlatter Information's supported products statement
>effective December 1998
>(http://www.silverplatter.com/supportedproducts.htm), SilverPlatter's
>character based UNIX client (UNIX-SPIRS) will not be supported after
>December 31, 1999.
>
>This means that we will no longer be offering telnet access to
>UNIX-SPIRS installed at SilverPlatter for accessing databases at
>SilverPlatter.
>
>The decision to remove this offering was based on three factors.
>UNIX-SPIRS is not a supported product after 12/31/99, UNIX-SPIRS is not
>Y2K compliant and there are security implications in allowing telnet
>access to the machine where UNIX-SPIRS resides.
>
>We apologize for any inconvenience this causes to your users and
>administrative staff. 
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Kimberly Parker
Electronic Publishing & Collections Libn
SML 606 or Med Lib TS
432-0067 or 785-7116
mailto:kimberly.parker@yale.edu