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Date:      Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:07:15 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Licia <licia@o-o.org>
Cc:        Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is there a "how did you hear about us?" form on www.freebsd.org? 
Message-ID:  <10898.922496835@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:49:27 CST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903251839020.20136-100000@o-o.org> 

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> 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:

<entry>
<first>John</first>
<last>Smith</last>
<email>jsmith@yahoo.com</email>
<address>123 Any street, #321</address>
<city>Anytown</city>
<state>USA</state>
<zip>98765-321</zip>
<options commerce_email="no" commerce_mail="no" announce="no" newsletter="no"></
options>
<version>3.1-RELEASE</version>
</entry>

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


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