Software Innovations

Administering a site like Gamers.Org requires a lot of time and effort. Sometimes we come up with some pretty nifty ideas for automating some mundane task or implementing some cool feature.

The sections below briefly describe some of our innovations. Further information, if any is available, can be found by following the highlighted program name.

PageBuilder - Build WWW pages from FTP info
DirTree - Build 'graphical' directory tree
FingerGate - A Gateway to Internet 'finger'
MDABuild - An automated Majordomo list manager
FTPMailStats - An FTPMail log analyzer
PageBuilder   written by JVE and Kapi

A perl script that creates HTML pages based on the contents of files and directories in an FTP hierarchy. When information in the FTP tree is changed, the WWW pages are updated using PageBuilder. You can see how it works for the 3D Action Gamers' Archive - this FTP hierarchy has been translated to this set of HTML pages.
DirTree   written by JVE

A perl script that generates a directory tree based on the output from the Unix ls -l command. The best example is the directory tree for the DOOM file archives housed at www.cdrom.com/pub/idgames/, and mirrored here at www.gamers.org/pub/games/idgames/.
FingerGate   written by JVE

A CGI perl script that implements a Finger Gateway to the Internet. It will finger the specified user@host and return the response in the chosen format. There is an easy-to-use front-end form with more information located at

http://www.gamers.org/cgi/FingerGate

MDABuild   written by Kapi and JVE

A perl script that creates and removes Majordomo mailing lists. It generates and installs files and directories required to operate a majordomo mailing list and constructs the alias list to append to the mail aliases file. It also will remove the files and directories when the list is deactivated. There are 6 different types of mailing lists supported : OPEN, CLOSED, MOD (moderated) - with and without digests.

To get a list of the publicly available Majordomo lists that we host, send email to majordomo@gamers.org with a message body consisting of the word "lists".

FTPMailStats   written by JVE

A simple perl script that analyzes FTPMail logs to summarize the traffic through the FTP via Email service.
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