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	-- Future Improvements --

The whole program needs to be re-written (again).  Mcp's development
was driven by need, rather than any concrete design specifications
and it shows.  Here are a few of the local outcries.

1.  Allow default login names to be chiseled from the real names
    by a set of rewriting rules, much in the way that sendmail rewrites
    addresses.  This would be much better than inflicting ODU'isms
    on other sites.

2.  Get rid of the hard coded cryos, deadbeats and inactives in favor
    of a more generalized database retrieval system.

3.  A facility to log who made what changes while using mcp (maybe).
    I see no real use for such a feature except to facilitate finger-pointing
    when accounts vanish.  Nonetheless, such a feature was suggested and
    if this is suggested often enough, it will be implemented.

4.  Have mcp use /etc/termcap instead of making assumptions about
    the few(?) capabilities that it uses (maybe).

5.  Junk or rewrite the internal help facilities (probably).  I can't
    accurately judge their usefulness since I know what mcp's going to
    do.