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Grex > Coop13 > #50: Commands to view Grex statement of principles and terms of service | |
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remmers
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Commands to view Grex statement of principles and terms of service
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Dec 9 11:50 UTC 2003 |
In response to concerns about usage policy statements not being
easy to find outside of newuser, I wrote a couple of commands to
extract and display relevant newuser text. If you have a tty
connection (dialup/telnet/ssh), you can try them out by
typing !grex-principles or !grex-limits at the next prompt.
Web versions are http://cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/grex-principles
and http://cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/grex-limits .
These read from the actual newuser info file and so will always
be in sync with whatever newuser says, now or in the future.
The command names are probably too verbose. Maybe "prin" (for
Principles) and "tos" (for Terms of Service) are better. I'd
like to put a couple of permanent lines in the motd pointing to
them, something like this:
http://cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/prin -Grex Statement of Principles
http://cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/tos -Grex Terms of Service
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mynxcat
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response 1 of 15:
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Dec 9 13:00 UTC 2003 |
Thanks remmers! Can we have a message on teh motd for some time telling people
who log on about these new commands?
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remmers
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response 2 of 15:
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Dec 9 13:28 UTC 2003 |
As I indicated in #0, I'd like it to be a short but *permanent* motd
message, so that people always have an easy way to find out what the
policies are. Want to wait though until we settle on names for the
commands. I'm open to suggestions.
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remmers
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response 3 of 15:
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Dec 9 13:39 UTC 2003 |
Changed my mind and put the URLs in the motd with the current names.
If the command names change, I'll change the motd correspondingly.
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other
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response 4 of 15:
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Dec 9 14:04 UTC 2003 |
Good call.
I'd like to see the limits page be a lot more terse. I think
brevity will go a long way toward increasing the number of people
who read, understand and pay attention to those limits.
A simple please at the beginning and thanks at the end will retain
the polite character of the statement, without adding much in
length.
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remmers
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response 5 of 15:
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Dec 9 15:30 UTC 2003 |
I agree.
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mynxcat
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response 6 of 15:
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Dec 9 16:30 UTC 2003 |
Re 2> Serves me right for being half asleep while reading this. Thanks
for taking care of this, remmers.
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dpc
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response 7 of 15:
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Dec 11 19:08 UTC 2003 |
Good show, John. Thanks!
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aruba
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response 8 of 15:
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Dec 11 19:18 UTC 2003 |
Looks like I forgot to respond to this message earlier. Thanks John!
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bhoward
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response 9 of 15:
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Dec 11 23:15 UTC 2003 |
I like the commands but the name is a bit long. How
about adding "limits" and "principles" as aliases?
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gelinas
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response 10 of 15:
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Jan 26 18:46 UTC 2004 |
It looks like the statements mentioned above have been removed from the
message of the day; I've now put them back.
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other
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response 11 of 15:
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Jan 26 20:17 UTC 2004 |
The formatting needs correction for backtalk.
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jor
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response 12 of 15:
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May 3 11:43 UTC 2004 |
I wonder why 'preformeated' text is being used,
with <pre> and </pre>. That's what causes it not
to wrap.
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remmers
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response 13 of 15:
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May 4 12:10 UTC 2004 |
The documents are extracted in real time from the newuser text.
This is plain text, not html. I use <pre> so that they display
the same way on the web that they do with a telnet connection.
Without any tagging at all, they'd display on the web as a
totally unformatted mess. I could try rewriting the CGI
script to intelligently insert <p> tags and such, but that
seems like more trouble than it's worth and could be susceptible
to breaking if the newuser text ever changes.
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jor
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response 14 of 15:
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May 4 12:41 UTC 2004 |
err, preformatted.
Now I get it, that's why they are in
/cgi-bin
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jesuit
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response 15 of 15:
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May 17 02:14 UTC 2006 |
TROGG IS DAVID BLAINE
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