Csuite Development Meeting - February 21, 1996
Minutes
Off line Mail/News Configuration
- Two Methods discussed with the use of off line Mail/News
Configuation,
These two methods are:
- qwk
- soup
- Topics discussed with concern to off line Mail/News Configuration
- It will free up modems for other users
- Packet size
- Topics discussed with concern to Packets
- Packet size should be small (user uploads and unzips them)
- Is it just a batch processing protocol?
Html Standards
- Discussion covered whether seemingly redundant HTML tags are
required for future browsers which may be more strict than the
browsers used at present, tags such as <HTML> and
</HTML>, <TITLE>
and </TITLE>, <HEAD> and </HEAD>, <BODY> and
</BODY>
- Gerard MacNeil has written a function which could help standardize
documents (cs-html-head)
FreeBSD
Discussion covered adding a link to the full csuite package and
allow the user to make some modifications
Netscape Terminals
- Discussed forged mail coming from Netscape terminals which
should be
disabled
- Discussed digital addresses
PGP
- Discussed how better trust wanted
- Discussed authentication
- Discussed Public Key registration
- Discussed how private key is encrypted
- Discussed whether PINE could handle PGP or not
- Ben should contact Micheal Smith to find out future plans of PINE
- Discussed how Csuite cannot grow if paralyzed by fear of offending
users with new functions or breaking existing functions
Help Documentation
- Discussed that help documentation should be improved on our service
- Discussed how help documentation should be improved for the Library
Public Access Terminals
Modem Time
- Discussed how user's should only have 3 logins per day
- Discussed if pop measured up
- Discussed how volunteers might be able to get more time
Xwelcome page message
- Discussed welcome page message that would suggest that users who
have not yet donated should to do so
- Whether sponsors would be visible on the Xwelcome page