From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 24 16:36:42 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA11825 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 16:36:42 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA11814 ; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 16:36:35 -0700 Message-Id: <199508242336.QAA11814@freefall.FreeBSD.org> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.FreeBSD.org: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Don's FList drop" cc: Gary Palmer , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netsite communications server works Great In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Aug 95 18:58:12 EDT." Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 16:36:34 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >On Thu, 24 Aug 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > >> Hehe. Yeah, there seemed to be a lot of nice features which look nice, >> and make nice bell & whistle sounds for you (ok, no sounds, but you >> get the idea), but only a few had any real use past the installation >> procedure, if at all. > >I don't see how this is only useful at install time. I add symlinks all >the time. While we think it's dorky, there are plenty of people who would >prefer to be able to do this kind of thing. There is also the standpoint >that it is better to do this translation at the front end instead of at >the filesystem level. Not _my_ standpoint, but a point none the less. Both NCSA httpd 1.4 and Apache allow you to do this. I don't like symlinks either. Our entire website is under CVS repository control so all of the symlinks had to die. Having source is also an important thing to consider. You aren't even eligible for updates or bug fixes with netscape unless you cough up an extra $500 for "tech-support". For an site that can get the software for free, maybe these are not issues, but there alternatives to using Netscape servers if you don't need encryption and from what I've seen, the alternatives perform just as well and offer similar feature sets save the HTML based configuration. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================