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  Subject:   The Hotline Users Digest #45 - 02/22/97
  To:            Geoff Le Feuvre
                 The Hotline Users Mailing List <Hotline@lists.fwparker.org>,Internet
The Hotline Users Digest #45 - Saturday, February 22, 1997

  Re: How can I sign up to a tracker server ?
          by  Philipp Conrad <phil@theconrads.com>
  Hotline Tracker 1.0 Released
          by  Adam Hinkley <hinks@netspace.net.au>
  New idea for servers. . .
          by  Jon Goldberg <jogoldberg@vassar.edu>
  Re: New idea for servers. . .
          by  Adam Hinkley <hinks@netspace.net.au>
  Re: New idea for servers. . .
          by  <XANiLOGx@aol.com>
  Tracker
          by  <d5w@atcon.com>
  Re: Tracker
          by  Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
  Re: Tracker
          by  <pramsey@mail.tds.net>


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Subject: Re: How can I sign up to a tracker server ?
From: Philipp Conrad <phil@theconrads.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 97 09:24:46 -0600

>Please tell me how can I can sign up to a tracker server.

1)  make sure you are using the Hotline Server b20 software.

2)  under options select "Register with Tracker"

3)  give your site a name and description.

4)  enter the IP address of the tracker you wish to be listed on.  


Adam hinkley has not yet added support for registering on multiple 
trackers, but I hope he will!  He claims to be working on something in 
the line of "linking trackers."  Beats me. :-)

Philipp  (Zini)

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Subject: Hotline Tracker 1.0 Released
From: Adam Hinkley <hinks@netspace.net.au>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 97 12:29:28 +1100


Just upload Hotline Tracker 1.0 to various sites, including Roadfeldt 
(207.70.237.7).

____________________________________________________________________
Adam Hinkley, developer of Hotline <http://netspace.net.au/~hinks/>


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Subject: New idea for servers. . .
From: Jon Goldberg <jogoldberg@vassar.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 21:15:50 -0500

Here's a new idea for servers, what do people think?

Despite the fact that now a Tracker can tell someone when a given server is
up, I still don't think bookmarks are going to become obsolete ;).  So,
what if someone wants to run a Hotline (on a static IP) but not 24 hours a
day?  Many sites I see are down during daytime hours.  The answer, I
believe, is either an option on the server (or better yet, a SMALL
stand-alone app) that will receive logins like a server, but instead of a
logon, the person will merely receive a user-defined message, like "This
system is not open during this time.  Our hours are 7pm-7am" or something
like that.  What do people think?

Also, there's the issue of the "incomplete upload" icon being the same as
the "upload in progress" icon. . .sometimes I start an upload, then my comp
crashes, I log back on, and even if there's no ghost, other ppl are
accessing the incomplete u/l, making it impossible for me to finish.  Is
there a way that this can be resolved?

Jon

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Subject: Re: New idea for servers. . .
From: Adam Hinkley <hinks@netspace.net.au>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 97 13:38:16 +1100

>The answer, I
>believe, is either an option on the server (or better yet, a SMALL
>stand-alone app) that will receive logins like a server, but instead of a
>logon, the person will merely receive a user-defined message, like "This
>system is not open during this time.  Our hours are 7pm-7am" or something
>like that.  What do people think?

Just turn off the access privs and change the agreement in your server.

>Also, there's the issue of the "incomplete upload" icon being the same as
>the "upload in progress" icon. . .sometimes I start an upload, then my comp
>crashes, I log back on, and even if there's no ghost, other ppl are
>accessing the incomplete u/l, making it impossible for me to finish.  Is
>there a way that this can be resolved?

You have to wait until the ghost times out.  No way around this.

____________________________________________________________________
Adam Hinkley, developer of Hotline <http://netspace.net.au/~hinks/>


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Subject: Re: New idea for servers. . .
From: XANiLOGx@aol.com
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 04:21:18 -0500 (EST)

About servers being up part time, I would think that this is due to the fact
that the admin is unable to have it up full time because their connection
goes down or something. If they were able to have a mini-server listening for
connections with a message, why not just have the real server up? Or, if for
some reason someone wants to have a "down" message, in the regular hotline
server their could simply be an option added, something like a check box
called "Server Down" or something, that would, when checked, simply send a
message that the server was down instead of connecting the user. This doesn't
seem like it would be a hard thing to add, and it would eliminate the need
for a whole 'nother application just to give the "down" message (I still
think the admin should just keep the server up.).

-Jason

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Subject: Tracker
From: d5w@atcon.com
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 12:20:18 -0500

Can someone please explain to me what software I need to log onto a tracker
server and how do I do it?

							Thanks




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Subject: Re: Tracker
From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 97 12:41:15 -0500

>Can someone please explain to me what software I need to log onto a tracker
>server and how do I do it?
>
>							Thanks

You go to options and type the name of the tracker in the tracker box.


           -Kevin Ballard

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KEVIN BALLARD
Internet Email-Kevin@sb.org
Internet web page-http://www.sb.org/kevin/
Hotline Server-Slartibartfast.sb.org OR 207.60.167.130
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Subject: Re: Tracker
From: pramsey@mail.tds.net
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 13:45:59 -0400

>Can someone please explain to me what software I need to log onto a tracker
>server and how do I do it?
>
>                                                        Thanks

While in Hotline, choose options from the "Hotline" menu or toolbar.
There will be a box that says Tracker next to it, enter 207.70.237.7 into
the box.
Click ok.

Now to bring up the tracker, choose tracker from the "Hotline" menu or toolbar.
A blank box will appear, If the server is working like it should be after a
few seconds the box will fill with server names.

To go to a server, double click on a server OR click on the name once then
hold down the option key and click the connect button(Its the first one),
this will bring up the connect dialog box so you can enter in a username
and password.

To update the list click the recycle button(the last one).

The center button doesn't do anything in b20.

204.95.233.208 is the backup tracker server, if the first one is down use
204.95.233.208.

Hope this helps :)



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