From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 04:30:28 -0500
Subject: [OT] Webring and List codes
1) Thanks for the URL http://valley.150m.com/Dirtside/FAQ/Etiquette.html Andrew, but I'm afraid I'll have to take issue with part of the code proposed therein. It seems to me rather redundant to include GZG in every list subject line. We're ON the GZG list, and that should be reflected in the SMTP addresses that arrive in the e-mail. This should be sufficient to route messages without additional redundancy. Subject line codes should only provide information not resident in the e-mail headers. Otherwise, I will excerpt some of the very useful commentary on that page, although I've already written a fairly detailed set of pages relating to this matter. There are a couple of nice points on the page you provided. Thanks! 2) My suggested list of codes (derived from the page provided plus some things I found missing) GZG (which I think is redundant in proposed use and should be exclusively for deus ex cathedra use by Jon) FMA B5 EFSB DS2 DS3 DS FT FT2 MT FB FTFB FB1 FB2 FTFB1 FTFB2 FT3 SG2 SG3 SG OT FMAS AD ANNOUNCE NEWS FH HIST LIST ADMIN (Prefer this to LIST) MINI ECC GZG-ECC WCC GZG-WCC CON GEOHEX EUREKA BRIGADE DLD OFFICIAL PSY PSI BIO ALIEN ARCHIVES Codes for Countries: SK - Saeed Khalifate FCT - Free Cal-Tex SF - Scan-Fed RH - Romanovs PAU - Pan Africans ESU - Eurasian Solar Union NAC - New Anglians FSE - The parts of Europe usually being invaded :) NSL - The parts of Europe usually doing the invading :) JAP - Japan KNG - Dutch Kingdom LLAR - Bitter dudes from South America IC - Indonesians OU - Aussies and Kiwis NI - Israelis IF - Islamic Fed SV - Savasku (Sierra Victor) KV - Kra'Vak (Kilo Victor) PH - Phalons (John Holmes) NFR - New French Republic SWI - Switzerland UN - United Nations ORC - Outrim Coalition 3) WebRing Jed said: There's adware?? Hmm.... Let me look into this. I joined Webring many many many years ago and stuck with it through its closures, changes to Yahoo, and back on its own again... ======= Read the Terms of Service Jeremy. And follow the link there to their privacy (or lack thereof) statement. On the one hand, they probably aren't being terribly odious - they tell you about the adds, they at least try to stream the adds to your taste in surfing, etc. They probably need to pay the bills. But that's sort of besides the point - I want a ring that has no ads and collects no information about its users. We're small enough and the application limited enough that I can easily see hosting an FT, DS and SG ring without _any_ load on a server. I just need to figure out what kind of things need to be done with Perl and CGI and mySQL to make this feasible - a long term project, given the backlog of contributions from people that me and Adrian are trying to get posted on our site. You see, most of us need either free services or cheap ones. I'm one of the few who has the odd combination of a good commercial service, a good co-creator and partner (yes Adrian, I said something nice about you... it _is_ one of the four horsemen...), and a fair bit of programming talent (though mostly Java/C++/TCPIP oriented). So in the long run, I hope to be able to leverage these assets to provide - a non corporate webring - an alternate home for GZG-L or at least a point of contact if the list goes belly up someday - a community site with message boards and maybe a chat area - etc. There may be some issues that may prevent some of these plans (my time, some server side capability limits, etc), but this is the path I've set myself on, albeit at very slow sublight speeds.... Tomb.