SCN: Democracy Tour

[Rod Clark]

Patrick Fisher wrote:
> Individuals don't have ftp capabilities in the "normal" sense
> of the word.

Patrick, 

   Or in any sense of the word. 

> Because SCN doesn't have secure ftp, users can have websites, but
> they have to transfer via command line interface, either via telnet
> or using a dial-up program.

   And then they have to laboriously transfer each file from its
work directory holding-pen to the work directory's public_html
subdirectory using the fairly unintuitive and clunky Freeport
text menus, once they find the right menu items to use.

   SCN could probably attract many thousands of active personal
sites if it could offer a Web hosting service with particularly
good ways to access, upload and update people's personal sites.
FTP is a good way to do that. There might be others. Any ideas,
other than FTP?

   This would be a great project for SCN. It would attract lots
of users, a lot of so-so content and some amount of good
content, and very likely among the throngs of personal site
users some worthwile number of people who might be willing to
volunteer or otherwise help SCN.

Rod Clark

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