From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 26 17: 8: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85BF15105 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:08:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA10900; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:07:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Licia Cc: Donald Wilde , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a "how did you hear about us?" form on www.freebsd.org? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:49:27 CST." Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:07:15 -0800 Message-ID: <10898.922496835@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [We now return to our regularly scheduled productive advocacy in this list] > Would you be interested in the possibility of a standalone TCP registration > server? A simple protocol could be used to create/edit/delete registrations. > With a simple whois style 'handle' system and basic authentication it would b I think it's more than worth trying, let's put it that way. We'd need to have not just the server but a couple of "front ends" done so we could test it, but that's probably no biggie. Then there's also the 45,000 or so previous registration entries which we'd want to merge. Each registration record looks basically like this: John Smith jsmith@yahoo.com
123 Any street, #321
Anytown USA 98765-321 3.1-RELEASE It's not ideal since it contains no real "demographic information" other than what release they were running at the time that the registration form was filled out, but we do have over 45,000 of these guys now and should probably do something with them. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message