Not Peter, Ross or Elliot, but James. James owns the PCRs.
Swerve wrote:
> Bill wrote:
>
>> Personally I cannot see any value in shifting valuable development
>
> resources to create unnecessary functions in the quickstart GUI.
>
> unnecessary function? Come on. whois and info about availability of
> domains is the most basic requirement if you are a domain reseller or
> purchaser.
>
> it's valuable to me and anyone else who's using the GUI.
> i do low volume.
> i've been using the gui for 3 years. I like it.
> i prefer to use opensrs whois.
> don't want to put in a password each time, since the web interface is
> now password required.
>
> i think this is a reasonable request. As a reseller, i expect to be
> able to access an unencumbered whois and availability of domain info.
>
> Peter, Ross, Elliot,
>
> time to chime in?
>
> Josh
>
>
>> > What i'm asking about is implementation into the quickstart gui
>> interface,
>>
>>> where scripting by resellers is not required.
>>
>>
>> Personally I cannot see any value in shifting valuable development
>> resources to create unnecessary functions in the quickstart GUI.
>> Remember folks, the quickstart GUI is just there to give someone new a
>> "quickstart" to using OpenSRS while they get their client side processing
>> up and running.
>>
>> It appears some folks may be using quickstart as their only (and
>> permanent) method for using OpenSRS. I cannot figure out why someone
>> would want to keep using the quickstart interface for much more than a
>> few
>> weeks. The cost of doing business is much greater by manually processing
>> orders via quickstart than it is when automatically processing via client
>> side scripts.
>
>
>
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