OK, I'll make it opt-in - if there's an INFO.TXT in the public FAL dir, I'll run the NCP commands, otherwise I'll show nothing. Is that OK with you? sampsa On 17 Dec 2012, at 21:33, Peter Coghlan <HECNET at beyondthepale.ie> wrote: With this in mind, I'm considering adding an opt-out system for the HECnet info system on RHESUS, maybe a NOINFO.TXT file in the public FAL directory and it won't run the NCP SHOW EXECs? Or is everyone OK with what RHESUS is doing now? That kind of depends on what exactly RHESUS is doing now. I'm quite happy for anyone on HECnet to send commands to my NML servers or to make information from my systems available to others on HECnet. However I am nervous of making this information available to anyone who wants it on the wider internet, particularly if it is a spur of the moment kind of thing which is changing by the hour without much thought being given to the implications. I don't think opt-out is a good way to go. People who have not carefully combed through the 80 plus mails to the mailing list today will not realise that they are being required to opt out from something that they did not know they were opting in to. Regards, Peter Coghlan.