At 9:18 PM 3/15/96, Steve Weiss wrote:
>At 3:24 PM 3/15/96, Andrew Foakes wrote:
>
>>I just wanted to say that the user survey is an extremely useful source of
>>information
>
>That's true.
>>So first an apeal to get everyone to put their machines on there.  A quick
>>reminder of the URL:
>>
>><http://puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us/~spearce/>
>
>I'll second that. It only takes a minute.

Actually a few to add a record, but only 1 sec to quote that url!

>>However, one problem is that it seems a little difficult to update one's
>>information.  In particular, I upgraded (or is that merely changed ;-) the
>>for.mays kernel to the GENERIC-4 and then the GENERIC-5 kernel, but when I
>>tried to update the information on the user survey, all that happened is
>>that the chart now reports 2 Classic IIs with NetBSD whereas the search
>>only reports me with the old information.  Did I upset it by dialling in
>>from my work address rather than my home address?
>
>Actually I just searched for classic II, and I found two records, but I
>think only one record was for you (#118) and it showed the updated
>information (GENERIC #5). It looks to me like your update went fine.

Thanks for looking this up - I had logged off before I read his message,
and thus couldn't jump right into Netscape to check it.

>Perhaps your browser cached the search results from before your editing. If
>that was the problem, you should remember to do a "reload" after editing.
>Some browsers ignore the signal not to cache the result of a CGI program,
>such as the search engine.

Didn't think of that.  I guess then its ok.  See, I don't care what the
if-modified-since header was sent, I just ALWAYS send the page back, so
your browser must be pretty darn stupid to not accept a page no matter what
(or it didn't bother to check the server after you went back or something
like that).

Reminder - Update your records when your system changes!  It only takes a
minute, and if we can keep the survey up to snuff, then we can at least
know what is working, and what isn't (for the most part).

Shawn.

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