Or, the SIPB WWW Policy FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
- Q. I'd like to run a script via your server.
- A. Sorry, we really can't do that unless you have a very good
reason. There are very big potential security holes that we really
don't want to deal with. If you want to run scripts, you should get
your own server, or get permission from someone else who has one.
- Q. I want to know how many times people are accessing my page.
- A. Enough people are paranoid about privacy issues (for people who
are browsing) that this kind of specific information is not given out. We
are currently working on getting general stats to work right, but other than
that no information on personal pages is available. Also, grovelling through
our server stats is a big load on our overworked server.
- Q. I want to use your graphics.
- A. Talk to rei@mit.edu.
Generally, if you just want to use graphics to link to the source (the
SIPB server or rei's homepage), go ahead. Please don't use them in
your own server as your own icons.
- Q. It's been a week and my page hasn't been added/my question
hasn't been answered.
- A. The webmasters are incredibly hosed; we're volunteers with
real classes and real jobs, and sometimes we just can't find the time
to do everything. If you have a simple request or question, we'll
probably get back to you quickly. If you have a more complex problem
... it might take a while.
- Q. Why don't you have such-and-such a page linked into your list
of (homepages, servers, activities)?
- A. We include homepages or servers in our major listings ONLY UPON
REQUEST. We have already had many problems where a homepage was
listed before the owner thought it was ready, or where it was
mis-named and the maintainers had not been told that it had been
added. So if you would like us to list a page, send the maintainers
of the page a note asking them to contact us.
- Q. I have nothing to do with MIT, but I'd like to have my page listed.
- A. Sorry, if we started adding *all* pages, I think our server
would explode. Well, maybe not, but it would be impossible to
maintain, and would eat up all our time, and then we'd go insane and
blow up our server after all. Either way, our server loses badly.
Questions we'd love to see, but don't:
- Q. We'd like to offer you a great, high-paying job. Interested?
- A. Yes!
- Q. We have a spare Sparc 20 with a service contract. Want it?
- A. Yes!
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