Marilynne Rudick and Leslie O’Flahavan Answer Online Writing Questions

We're interested in all aspects of online writing-e-mail marketing, online newsletters, web-writing, customer service e-mail and Web self-service. And we'd like to hear from you about your concerns and experiences. Are you interested in developing a new online newsletter but can't decide on format or frequency? Do you have print publications you'd like to "repurpose" for the Web? Are you thinking about an e-mail sales…

Using sudo

Most Unix systems have some way of letting ordinary users perform certain tasks as root or some other privileged user. SCO Open Server has "asroot" and can also directly assign "authorizations" such as backup privileges or being able to change other user's passwords. SCO Unixware/Open Unix 8 have a similar facility in "tfadmin". Many Unixes, and Linux, use "sudo". The configuration of sudo is by…

Hot-selling Privacy Products

If you are in the business of selling products relating to online privacy, now might be a good time to step up your Internet marketing promotions. In last month's issue of CNET Downloads Publishers Newsletter, it was stated ... "the online privacy category saw an astonishing 924 percent increase in download activity between August (2002) and February (2003)."

Backlinks (http_referrers)

When a web page is accessed by a link from some other page, the address of the other page (the "referring page") is made available to the web server. We can pick that information up from logs or as the page is being displayed. For example, if we have Server Side Includes or php, we can pickup the referring page from an environment variable. Here's…