~terry
Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (08:44)
seed
Let's offer our conferencees home pages. I'd like to do a mailout to
them offering them home pages. There should be an easy way to pull out
everyone's email addresses.
~mrobens
Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (10:30)
#1
Terry,
You're getting pretty low on disk space on spring.com. Do you have another server in mind for this?
~churchh
Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (11:32)
#2
Terry, a lot of the e-mail addresses for web users are bogus, becuas the default choice that's presented to them is the concatenation of:
The user name they're choosing for spring + "@" + the result of running reverse DNS lookup on the IP address they're coming in from
There probably isn't any better way to construct such a default, but unfortunately an e-mail address constructed according to this procedure will be bogus in mnay cases, and a lot of people don't bother to edit the default...
So the result is that there's a lot of bogus pseudo-addresses of the general type "ColFitzwilliam@dial-in-ppp42-9.custmax.ms.uu.net", or whatever...
~terry
Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (20:08)
#3
We need an email verification program to validate new users before
they're accepted. We should be emailing them passwords and their
accounts should become active till they log in with their password that
has been emailed to them. And we need to have a questionaire that is user
definable that new users have to fill in. The results of the
questionaire would be kept in a tab delimited file which could easily be
converted to a database.
Without a tool like this, we will never get a grip on our user community
and it will remain basically an anonymous group. I hope that this can be
incorporated into the next build.
The new account questionaire should run on both the unix shell and on the
web.
This is our single most vital need.