Re: Vamp Hacked!

From: Wayne Sewell (wayne_at_tachysoft.com)
Date: 10/05/05


Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:34:20 GMT


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>Subject: Re: Vamp Hacked!
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>
>Wayne Sewell <wayne@tachysoft.com> wrote in
>news:00A4A9E5.AA2FE8E5.1@tachysoft.com:
>
>> I should have qualified this as: bulletin board, accessible by anyone
>> with a web browser on any type of system anywhere on the internet.
>>
>> The last time I used decnotes, you had to directly log into a vms
>> system and issue dcl commands. The people using my bulletin board are
>> not vms users, nor do I want anyone directly logging into my system,
>> with or without privs.
>
>Well, thanks to a certain Mr Graham Burley, and the Notes API, there is
>now a web interface to Notes - HTNotes. This is available on the
>Deathrow Cluster at http://gein.vistech.net/notes/ (if you have an
>account), and works with VMS authentication and authorization quite
>nicely. Yes, if you know the right magic incantations you can log into
>our system's HTNotes interface and work with conferences on multiple
>systems. For obvious (trolling) reasons I won't post the specifics of
>that here.
>
>>From my lurking on Eisner, I suspect it will end up in use there too,
>plus it has the advantage that those who prefer the character cell
>interface can work with that, and those who want to work in a browser can
>do so.
>
>Anyways, as Graham has demonstrated, the design of Notes allows for
>expansion in ways never even dreamt of by the original implementors.
>

Is the interface available for use elsewhere? If so, can it be used for
commercial customer support bulletin boards if the systems involved are not
running under the hobbyist license?
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