Mail Archives: opendos/1997/12/04/03:10:14
The ftp solution may work running lynx. I'll try it and let the list
know.
This will bypass passwords in the future though if it has to be done
for future versions and therefore make the downloads useless.
What probably ought to be done to eliminate this whole
problem is for list membership to be made conditional on
filling out that form caldera has on their web page but having that form
emailed to
new list members so they can fill it out with their own editors on their
own systems
and have better control of how information added to the form eventually
looks.
The digest membership proably ought to be made similar.
One of the critical data points is an email address.
Caldera at whatever location could make a list of valid email addresses
useable
as passwords accessible to a restricted ftp directory for beta
downloading. Their form for this purpose is incomplete in any event.
One question that doesn't appear on it is:
list any inactive email addresses caldera corporation
has on file for you:
With that information, when users change email providers their database
could
be properly culled and maintained.
Another possible solution and only D.J. Delorie can
answer this point would be for members to be sent a 72 hour beta
attachment message which says in about 72 hours from the date on
this message a message will be emailed to your inbox
containing an attachment of a new opendos beta.
Of course use of juno.com and other similar email providers would have to
be refused membership since that "service" only has a 500 line limit on
email messages. I don't know that the server over at delorie.com would be
able
to handle the traffic size of that many large attachments being sent to
everyone on the list.
Jude <dashiell AT clark DOT net>
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