Thanks for the details, the blog will appreciate it.
I've used the comment management. Very nice.
> The new extension lets a sysop do the same thing for
> all blogs ...
In specific, I was trying to point +1 the feature.
Feel free, as Sysop of PyCS, to bit-bucket any
comments you see on my site that are as I described.
The whole google locale issues was absense of rtfs
(and other things ;O) on my part.
- Dean
> Good point.
>
> Personally, I like the thought of a Sysop blasting
> rogue comments on my blog: Spam, Double click dual
> posts, horrendously innapropriate, etc.
BTW, you can do that too. It's not documented, but if you visit the
following url:
http://www.pycs.net/system/login.py
... and log in with the e-mail address and password you gave Radio
when you created the blog, then go back to a comment page on your
blog, you should see a 'Delete' button under each comment.
The new extension lets a sysop do the same thing for all blogs ...
> p.s. All of the Google referrer links on pycs.net
> point to google.de ;-) At first I thought I was
> actually getting hits from Germany searches, but later
> remembered the implementation context. Phil, would
> you mind switching PyCS over to google.com ? Might
> need to check with Martin Gerber, though...I can live
> with it if it's handy to him. Killer feature, btw.
> Next week I'll post some referrers for AllTheWeb.com
> and Vivisimo.com for analysis.
Martin's already answered this one, but I think you really are getting
search hits from Germans ;-)
The search tracking page just looks for referrers with 'google' (and
various other things) in them. Check out pycs.net/sqr/referrers.html
for a really detailed analysis of your hits.
Cheers,
Phil :)
Hi!
> Oh, I just checked in a little patch to searches.py so that it now
> recognizes altavista searches. I actually didn't get any up to now, but
> Phil does, and so I thought it would be nice if they showed up in the
> list, too :-)
And MSN, too (as I got some from there).
bye, Georg
Hi!
> p.s. All of the Google referrer links on pycs.net
> point to google.de ;-) At first I thought I was
> actually getting hits from Germany searches, but later
> remembered the implementation context. Phil, would
Hmm? I don't think we have something in there that points explicitly to
google.de - it just takes the referrer from the http headers, that's
all. I just did a grep -r -i google.de on the source-tree and didn't
find any hardcoded google.de stuff (it might have happend, as I usually
would insert google.de automatically if I was to hardcode something like
that, just out of habit). I would say that you actually _do_ get hits by
german (or german IP range) searches :-)
Google does a bit of trickery: when your IP falls into some ranges, it
forcebly switches you over to google.de because of the censorship stuff
they implemented there (yes, we in germany get censored with google
search results!), so maybe you are bitten by this, as google seems to
switch a bit more IPs than is actually needed.
Or it just happens that I searched a _lot_ of stuff lately and that I
often stumbled over pycs.net and so it's just me ...
Oh, I just checked in a little patch to searches.py so that it now
recognizes altavista searches. I actually didn't get any up to now, but
Phil does, and so I thought it would be nice if they showed up in the
list, too :-)
bye, Georg
> Actually that would go nicely with my "BBS" theme,
> as we used to have
> several "sysops" to run the system. More finegrained
> control often isn't
> really needed - I see that every time with Zope, you
> very seldom use the
> full power of the authencation and rights mechanism,
> usually the
> "user <-> manager" type of distinction is more than
> enough.
>
Good point.
Personally, I like the thought of a Sysop blasting
rogue comments on my blog: Spam, Double click dual
posts, horrendously innapropriate, etc.
- Dean
p.s. All of the Google referrer links on pycs.net
point to google.de ;-) At first I thought I was
actually getting hits from Germany searches, but later
remembered the implementation context. Phil, would
you mind switching PyCS over to google.com ? Might
need to check with Martin Gerber, though...I can live
with it if it's handy to him. Killer feature, btw.
Next week I'll post some referrers for AllTheWeb.com
and Vivisimo.com for analysis.
Hi!
> has been working on: the ability to designate an 'admin user' who has
> the power to delete comments on all blogs.
Ah, good. I am still not back to normal speed, but I think I will sync
with CVS in the next days and will have a look at it.
> [btw, we've had three different authentication methods for ages now -
> time to try and merge them? or does it make sense to leave it as it
> is, with an 'overall admin password', per-blog logins for comments,
> and separate logins for viewing restricted pages...?]
Hmm. Are they really mergeable? The overall admin password is like some
external administrator, the guy who keeps stuff running. The per-blog
logins are in-system-administration within the limits of PyCS code. And
the separate logins for viewing restricted pages are for exactly that -
not blog based or user based, but based on the structure of the system.
Can we merge something diverse like that? Or would be better go and look
what mechanism to use for what stuff? I usually like web-integrated
administration for web systems, so I would put that stuff under the
login.py authentication. pycsadm on the other hand is for automatted
stuff, so I think it's ok to have it's own password - it's on it's own
sublevel in the innards of the machine, if you understand what I'm
saying. The only stuff where I currently (!! this might change) don't
have a use for is the authentication for restricted pages.
So I think with your first "admin" feature it's the right way. Only
difference is that I would like to have a flag in the user record that
you can set for example with pycsadm and say "this user is an admin".
Just to have more than one admin. And administrative stuff only works if
one of the admins first uses login.py and then visits the administrative
(or normal) pages.
Actually that would go nicely with my "BBS" theme, as we used to have
several "sysops" to run the system. More finegrained control often isn't
really needed - I see that every time with Zope, you very seldom use the
full power of the authencation and rights mechanism, usually the
"user <-> manager" type of distinction is more than enough.
bye, Georg
