Theos-Talk Archives (November 2001 Message tt00119)

At 03:22 AM 11/7/01 +0000, you wrote:

> Eldon, could you throw a little more light on what you mean in what
> you write below?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Daniel
>
> Eldon B Tucker wrote:
>
> > The type of url above indicates user id "a7502210" at
> > the "www.unet.univie.ac.at". The "~a7502210" directory
> > is really a linux/unix command that expands out to mean
> > the home directory for user a7502210 on a particular
> > system.
> >
> > I notice that Brigitte has sometimes posted messages using
> > the email id "a7502210@u...", which seems to
> > be the same user account that the web site is setup
> > under.
When you set up a web site, if you don't have a
domain of your own, the home directory for the
site is typically based upon the user id that
you're assigned, like "a7502210". The expression
"~a7502210" refers to the directory for that
user id.

If I had a web site created as user id "joesmith"
at "theplace.com", it's top level web page would
be "http://www.theplace.com/~joesmith";.

The user id that the website is setup under would
also be the main one for email from that account,
so the main email account would be "joesmith@theplace.com".

This is what I'd expect to see happen at the
typical university, where students, faculty, and
staff may have some standardized account names
like "a7502210".

If someone had their own domain name, it could
be linked to that address, so that someone could
have something like www.isawtheplace.com to that directory.

In your message that I was commenting on, you mention:

> Dear Brigitte,
>
> Your message below is very confusing.
>
> If you were not the owner of the History of Theosohy website that
> was at http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a7502210/ then WHO WAS?
>
> I thought you were at least the editor. Were you the editor?
The "http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a7502210/"; web site
belongs to user "a7502210" at unet.univie.ac.at. This
is the same user id and address that Brigitte has sometimes
post from, as in the following example (with the bulk
of message deleted to avoid cross posting):

> To: UniversalSeekers@yahoogroups.com
Message-ID: <9s8pvb+o65f@eGroups.com>
> From: a7502210@unet.univie.ac.at
> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 13:52:43 -0000
> Subject: [US] Re: Blavatsky's "Golden Dawn"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> ... message appears here ...
>
> Brigitte
-- Eldon