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Date Posted: 21:11:55 07/14/00 Fri
Author: Just A Thought...
Subject: Re: Automatic Linking & Extra field boxes
In reply to: JM 's message, "Re: Automatic Linking & Extra field boxes" on 15:10:34 07/14/00 Fri

> It seems fairly straight-forward; though not being a
> programmer etc I don't know how easy it is. As said
> before, html is about my limit; though from browswing
> the internet, for those that are programmers, surely
> this is easy peasy - ie just add in a few extra lines
> for the Forum Owners.

Well unlike just writing up an HTML page that posts your form information to a "form to email" perl script your ISP/WebHoster has provided, adding even seamingly simple things into a complex application and keeping speed and security in place requires planning, testing, and debugging, as everyone saw from the last major Voy.com upgrade (or the ongoing battle of Microsoft to try and make a secure version of Windows NT/Win 2000/whatever comes next (sic).)

The addition of even one field requires not only the spot on an HTML form, but the backend programs of Voy.com need to have error checking in place for bad/malicious code/redirects (like people saw a spammer post into countless forums), or buffer overflow issues if not properly tested, coded. This along with making the proper calls to place the information in the databases, and they have to go in and expand the databases for all existing records to include blank fields for the new "fields" in the HTML file, along with adding these fields into the proper search functions when called by code in Voy.com's backend programs to display the right information in the right spot.

Everything seems simple unless you actually understand how things actually work behind the scenes (of any program, or for that matter any thing on the planet). I would imagine these functions a number of people have asked for will probably added in their next release, but hey, as long as the site says up and running and my visitors can post and read messages, I am getting great service from a "free" service. Give them some time, or send them a couple of grand in cash as an incentive ;)

I am not in any fashion associated with Voy.com, but as a designer of intranet and internet server and network configurations I don't know how many people I talk to each day that think is should be so easy to have say two or three web servers running so in the event one crashes, the other starts serving automatically... of course as soon as you start talking about keeping directory structures in sync, single points of failure (ala linking multiple web servers to a single NFS server, NFS server goes down so do the 3 web servers hehe) and switches with QoS / Layer-3 and Layer-4 packet filtering, etc. it becames much more complex then having two computers sitting next to each other....

I think the Voy.com staff does a great job in providing just what they have promised... :)

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