Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 19:10:42 -0600 (CST) From: Licia <licia@o-o.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User Registration [was Is there a "how did you hear about us?" ] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904011905390.26408-100000@o-o.org> In-Reply-To: <10898.922496835@zippy.cdrom.com>
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I'm running a bit behind this week so I didn't get it all done over last
weekend like I'd hoped, but I have finished an "example of concept" server and
will write command line and web form based clients for it tomorrow, then once
everyone's told me -exactly- how badly written it is, if there is interest in
implementing it for production use, I can probably get it done in about
another 20 hours of code unless someone with more talent wants to do it :)
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> [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:
>
> <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
>
If the database is in -exactly- that form I could write a utility to import
them all in one sweep and email each entry with a web page url, their ID, and
randomly selected password and request that they please update it.. :)
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