[23498] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Question of posting National Board Policy Manual online
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Ryan Gallagher)
Mon Feb 3 21:19:13 2003
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 21:19:13 -0500
Reply-To: Michael Ryan Gallagher <famtree@UDel.Edu>
From: Michael Ryan Gallagher <famtree@UDel.Edu>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
If anyone checked out the example site below, it isn't even a matter of
usernames; just a password. (like
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wthighsm/ceremony/brotherhood.html) Does anyone on
the list know how to code this?
Maybe those chapters should have the "Brothers Only" section called "Chapter
Brothers Only" because I was a bit turned off by a link that said "Brothers
Only" which I couldn't access, since I AM A BROTHER.
Michael Gallagher
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek J. Cashman" <derek.cashman@vcu.edu>
To: <APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [APO-L] Question of posting National Board Policy Manual online
> > 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!
>
>
> _____
>
> 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
>
> _____
>
> "A Drug is any substance which, when injected into a rat, produces a
> publishable, scientific paper."
>
