There seems to be some difference in "interpretation" between myself,
Steve Fisher and Robin Middleton.
I believe there are cases for having a mechanism to protect a few files.
I've already given a few example. I'm not advocating protecting any
other files but if we do wish to discuss say commercially confidential
material then we should have a policy/mechanism for this from the
start of the design.
I don't follow SteveF's suggestion that the publicity pages are for
politicians; we are also (eventually) providing services (or at least
tested software) to UK scientists in other disciplines (as Robin said)
and a good presentation and structure really helps in creating a
favourable impression and facilitates the effective explotation of
whatever we deliver..
Of course there is no reason why we can't have good tools and pages
everywhere but by the time you get right down to the real detailed work
than its has often been the case that people want the information
quickly and don't care so much about presentation.
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