Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 20:01:41 -0700 From: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a "how did you hear about us?" form on www.freebsd.org? Message-ID: <36FC4A15.F2EE94CB@thuntek.net> References: <10898.922496835@zippy.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > [We now return to our regularly scheduled productive advocacy in this list] > great! John seems to be back in human form too. He posted a great explanation of the VM for me. > > 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> > basic DB stuff. Only concern will be in keeping the db from barfing on the incomplete records. > 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. :) That ain't hay, considering as it's probably about 5% of our installed base. Perhaps we could use the 'handle' like a cookie and have John Polstra add to our database when people CVSup to -STABLE? Almost every machine has to be CVSup'd individually, that might give us a more accurate count of the numbers. My lights are flickering in the thunderstorm. I may disappear in the arms of the blue flashes... -- Donald Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" Wilde Media 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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