Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:49:27 -0600 (CST) From: Licia <licia@o-o.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> 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: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903251839020.20136-100000@o-o.org> In-Reply-To: <6503.922407336@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > The install process registration has made me wonder too. Would it be possibl
> e
> > perhaps to offer a "print this out and mail it in" registration for people
>
> The registration process everyone is currently seeing now really need
> to be ripped out and replaced. Why? Several reasons.
>
> One, as you've noted, there's no way to do the registration when you
> haven't got email set up yet; a good percentage of the registrations
> we get are actually bounced back by freebsd.org's spam filter, which
> doesn't deal with sites without proper DNS. When you've set the
> machine up before the DNS entry, as many do, that's clearly not going
> to work.
>
> Secondly there's the fact that email, even though clearly imperfect,
> is the only way to go. We don't deal well with web site registration
> (at least not in a way which weeds/prevents duplicates or allows
> someone to change their existing entries) and we don't allow people to
> postal mail their stuff in to some counter person.
>
> The idea of having people register at installation time is a good one,
> don't get me wrong, but my initial "proof of concept implementation"
> there is clearly showing many cracks now. Who'd like to take over
> registration at this stage?
>
> - Jordan
>
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 be
possible to allowe users to maintain their own entries in the system, with
virtually no added effort from staff or such. I'd personally also like to see
the possibility of users snail mailing in their registrations, if they simply
have no way of getting online to do it as well.
If you're interested I can probably get a basic demonstration server written
over the weekend and at least one demonstration client, I imagine. I'd like
to also write a command line tool that would allow users to edit their
registrations (allowing for multiple cpu's installed per person, with as much
information as they care to give for possible demographics use) with the ease
of something like chpass.
I could also probably provide clients that would work from within sysinstall,
and some simple way for snailmail to be handled as well though that would
take longer than a single weekend :).
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