[sdiy] SDIY mailing list archive poll

[Happy Harry]

I vote for no passwords: Once I post to the list, GOD and everybody
(Including the big D   >;^) has access.  Trying passwords will just cut out 
newbies... not pirates !!!

H^) harry


>From: Michael Buchstaller <buchi at takeonetech.de>
>Reply-To: buchi at takeonetech.de
>To: synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
>Subject: [sdiy] SDIY mailing list archive poll
>Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 10:34:59 +0100
>
>Hello group,
>
>Thank you all for your comments about my archive for this mailing list.
>Most of them were positive, some had reported errors and problems; i hope
>to have them all fixed by now.
>As i can see, most users do not want fancy graphics but prefer to see the
>facts; so i will leave the pages as-is, with no additional graphics. (but 
>of course
>i will still sometimes improve the funtionality)
>
>As Martin has closed his archive, i would like to make the old text data 
>available
>on my server. There is still a potential that some sucker (Hi, Dieter D.!) 
>could
>download it and do strange things with that material.
>
>
>So, i have some choices:
>
>
>A: a download page where anyone could get the archives
>
>
>B: same download page, but protected with a username and password for
>    all group members (e.g. "SDIYReader"/"Blabla")
>    Of course that password will not be posted on the list itself; 
>otherwise anyone
>    could simply search for "password" in the archive and find it there.
>
>
>C: download page protected with individual passwords for each user that
>    will be mailed out on request
>
>
>D: simple unprotected download page, but with password-protected ZIP files
>
>
>E: No downloads allowed.
>
>
>Please, let me know ontil next monday, what you would prefer. Private mail 
>preferred,
>i will count the results and publish it to the group on monday. After that, 
>i will make that
>page.
>
>
>
>-Michael Buchstaller

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