From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 26 19: 2:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.thuntek.net (srv1.thuntek.net [206.206.98.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BB771509E for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:02:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwilde1@thuntek.net) Received: from thuntek.net (abq-059.thuntek.net [207.66.52.59]) by srv1.thuntek.net (8.9.1/8.6.12TNT1.0) with ESMTP id UAA15406; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 20:01:58 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <36FC4A15.F2EE94CB@thuntek.net> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 20:01:41 -0700 From: Donald Wilde X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a "how did you hear about us?" form on www.freebsd.org? References: <10898.922496835@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: > > > John > Smith > jsmith@yahoo.com >
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> Anytown > USA > 98765-321 > options> > 3.1-RELEASE > > 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