Re: [FWP] Something To Do: "freesubmit project"

[Stas Bekman <sbekman@iil.intel.com>]

> I've just spent two weeks negotiating with a firm
> who want someone to build a URL submission engine for them;
> a system where the paying customers fill out one form
> and the business submits their data to all the search engines
> they can find. (like "submit-it" but more thorough)
> 
> The system I proposed to build for them had, therefore,
> two interfaces:  a client interface for the paying customers
> to put their information into, and an administrative interface
> for the administrators to define new "targets" which were to
> be defined in terms of The CGI URL to submit the data to,
> the form of the data, and a translation table translating
> the categorization information collected on the One Form into
> the categories required by the specific targets.
> 
> Negotiations fell apart when I tried to add a clause to
> their contract which would make the copyright on the finished
> program return to me if they didn't pay for it (after a year)
> so I am patting myself on the back for getting away without
> giving them a chance to not pay me.
> 
> But anyway.  Would anyone be into helping put together a
> free, open-sourced URL submission engine based on the
> idea in the second paragraph?  We would host it on
> my reliable, high-bandwidth rented virtual server and
> all participants would get to share the glory of the credit.

Too late, I've done it already:
http://www.singlesheaven.com/stas/TULARC/works/submit/submit-urls.html

You are welcome to improve it of course :) and make it CPANable...

> 
> I have set up a mailing list to discuss this further.
> To join, send an email to
> 
> 
> freesubmit-subscribe@egroups.com
> 
> 
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