Re: Winlogon accessing the internet

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:47:35 -0500, pcbutts1 <pcbutts1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Glad you got it working.

I haven't posted much here lately, but I have been lurking. I'll provide my take on things
anyway, with the hope you'll listen to what I consider an objective point of view.

Unless you are specifically authorized to mirror a specific package, you should only
provide links to the original distributors' site, not copies that may be out of date, or may
have been altered. Please note, that I'm not saying you have altered any of the packages
you've chosen to mirror, just that you could, if you wanted to, and a newbie wouldn't know
the difference.

The primary complaint of your articles, that I've read, have been regarding encouraging
newbies to trust you to have current, unaltered packages available for download,
on your website. Again, I'm not saying you don't. I'm simply agreeing with others here,
that you are not encouraging safe-hex, by suggesting newbies should trust you to have
up-to-date, unaltered copies of others software, on your website, when they have no
way of knowing, who you are.

Upon my first attempt to see what you do have on your website, I found that
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt
includes
127.0.0.1 www.pcbutts1.com #[Unauthorized Downloads]
so I couldn't even see your site without modifying my hosts file. After altering
my hosts file, to allow access, http://www.pcbutts1.com/downloads/ only shows
a blank page, as
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcbutts1.com%2Fdownloads%2F
shows the site does not follow html, or xhtml standards.

I hope that you really are trying to help people, and have just run into some personality
conflicts here, that have made you choose to ignore the advice given here.

Please make your website w3c compliant, so non-windows users can see it.

Please use links to the vendors websites, unless you have specific permission to
act as a mirror, and in that case, make sure the vendor states that somewhere on
their website.

Please do not encourage newbies to download software from sites that have not
been authorized by the author's vendors.

While I agree with you that HGT logs are on topic here, as I expressed a year and
a half ago, in http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.virus/msg/f4fb7eeefca675ff?dmode=source
posting hgt logs in the newsgroups clutters search results. In my opinion, the logs
should only be posted to one (or more) of the many forums specifically designated
for them.

Again, while I won't be surprised if you choose to interpret the above as being overly
critical, I hope you will consider it as an objective viewpoint. It would also probably
help if you would drop the profanity from your articles, and learn to read what you're
about to post, trying to imagine it from other peoples point of view.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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