[23496] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Question of posting National Board Policy Manual online
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek J. Cashman)
Mon Feb 3 20:57:23 2003
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 20:55:20 -0500
Reply-To: "Derek J. Cashman" <derek.cashman@vcu.edu>
From: "Derek J. Cashman" <derek.cashman@vcu.edu>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <001f01c2cbe0$744ea860$2efbaf80@famtree>
> Post it online in PDF format, as previously done before its removal.
> However, we can password-protect it as the Order of the Arrow (OA)
> material is. APO does not have levels of access to materials dealing
with > a given Honor level and those below, but we can use the same
idea. Use
> something unique to APO that is from the Initiation Ceremony, as the
OA
> uses for each of its types of initiation ceremonies. Ideas? Everyone
> with an idea, chime in; register your $.02 so that we have "~$15K" of
> ideas.
Basic password-protection is, in fact, already being used by many
regions & sections on their websites to protect critical information.
And I have noticed that an increased number of individual chapters have
incorporated a "Brothers Only" section into their chapter websites as
well. The common "dividers" I have seen so far are basically for STAFF
ONLY pages where a username & password is distributed out to members of
the section or region staff, as well as chapters having a BROTHERS ONLY
section that a username/password is distributed out to brothers of the
chapter.
The most common information to put in this section is probably
address/phone number info. This type is generally the type of
information that brothers do not want on the regular web (mainly to keep
away from stalkers and spammers). Some chapters maintain a listing of
AIM screen names which they do not want published as well. Region III
keeps a staff directory in it's Staff Resources section, as well as
several other documents related to regional business. No, the BOD policy
manual is not in this section (yet),... we're holding off on this for a
bit (although it's probably on it's way there eventually,... ;-)
Also, you generally don't need to have individual usernames/passwords
for everyone that requires access. One single username/password would
suffice, and you just give that out to everyone that you want to have
access to your members only section. Although for security reasons, you
might change the username/password every two years or so (whenever
there's a change in the board), just as a preventative measure,...
Anyway, if Regions, Sections, & Chapters can do this easily, I see no
reason why the National Office can't do it, too! The HTML coding for it
is actually quite simple. It requires merely a small bit of knowledge of
.htaccess & .htpasswd files, which you can easily glean from doing a
search for ".htaccess" and ".htpasswd" on www.google.com (man's best
friend, next to the dog; then again, google is a gift from god, so
dyslexics won't know the difference! :-) ... Some providers make it even
easier than that! For example, apo83.org uses yahoo! as a web-hosting
service, and they have a program in the configuration section that
configures the password and any directories you want protected
automatically!
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Derek J. Cashman (derek.cashman@vcu.edu)
Technology & Electronic Communications (TEC) Coordinator
Alpha Phi Omega; Region III
Graduate Student, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
MCV Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University
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"A Drug is any substance which, when injected into a rat, produces a
publishable, scientific paper."
