Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] (forw) Re: formmail spammers

[Jonathan S. <gel...@ge...>]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, iain truskett wrote:

> Useful? From the mod_perl list:
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Geoffrey Young <ge...@mo...> -----
>
> From: Geoffrey Young <ge...@mo...>
> To: Matt Sergeant <ma...@se...>
> CC: Perrin Harkins <pe...@el...>,
>    "mo...@ap..." <mo...@ap...>,
>    Mike Schienle <mg...@iv...>
> Subject: Re: formmail spammers
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:48:44 -0500
> Message-ID: <3C4...@mo...>
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)
>
>
>
> I would have liked a link to send them to for the NMS replacement, but
> I saw two problems:
>
> 1. http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/ has only tarballs

The source of the individual files can be downloaded from the cvs-web on
the the sourceforge project pages but admittedly that is a bit of a pain
in the arse - would it help if we were to make the files available
individually from the web site or perhaps in some other format (zipped for
instance) ?  We never got to any resolution about the format of the
distributions we would provide - this is probably a good time to kick it
back off again :)

> 2. the name of the script has a different capitalization in the
> tarball
>

I'm afraid this is an idiosyncracy of the original distribution of the
script that this replaces :(  Of course on Unix it would be no problem to
provide a symlink in the distribution but I don't think that works for
Windows ;-}  However if we were to provide the files individually from the
website then providing one with an alternative capitalization shouldn't be
a problem.

> now, for us, this is a no-brainer.  trying to get non-technical people
> (which the vast majority of our hosting customers are) to make the
> switch, though, will result in lots of headaches and support calls
> (which are expensive)...
>

I work for an ISP too, I know what you mean :)

> is anyone here involved in this project?  what we really need is to be
> able to say:
>

Well you got to us in the end :)

>
> "hey, just plop this file http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/formmail.pl
> in place of your old formmail.pl"
>

In the short-term doing something like this shouldn't be a problem at all
I guess even before we have sorted out how we are going to allow access to
the individual files.  Someone will get back to you with the URL ...

Maybe you ought to join one of the NMS mailling lists.

/J\
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