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Subject:Re: Re[2]: documentation on the WWW From:dan flanigan <danflan -at- INTERACCESS -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 4 Oct 1996 20:33:29 -0500
>A question for those of you whose product doc is on the web...How do you
deal
>with security issues? The R&D guys here are talking about distributing
software
>and doc through a limited access web site, and I'm not sure that's
doable...
How about something as simple as a password that only customers would have.
That's how we do things at my company. Then in addition to having our
manuals on-line, we zip the HTML files up and provide them on our FTP
server.
