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+CATEGORY SYSTEM FOR VENICE SIGS
+(Based on the Mozilla Open Directory Project category system)
+
+Arts
+    Animation
+    Antiques -> Recreation:Antiques
+    Architecture
+    Art History
+    Body Art
+    Celebrities
+    Comics
+    Crafts
+    Dance
+    Design
+    Education
+    Entertainment
+    Graphic Design
+    Humanities
+    Illustration
+    Literature
+    Movies
+    Music
+    Myths and Folktales
+    Native and Tribal
+    Performing Arts
+    Photography
+    Radio
+    Television
+    Theatre
+    Typography
+    Video
+    Visual Arts
+    Writing
+Business
+    Accounting
+    Advertising
+    Aerospace
+    Agriculture and Forestry
+    Apparel
+    Arts and Entertainment
+    Associations
+    Aviation
+    Business Services
+    Classifieds -> Shopping:Classifieds
+    Computers
+    Consulting
+    Construction and Maintenance
+    Electronics
+    Employment
+    Energy and Utilities
+    Environmental and Safety
+    Financial Services
+    Food and Related Products
+    Insurance
+    Internet Services
+    Investing
+    Law -> Society:Law
+    Management
+    Manufacturing
+    Marketing
+    Mining and Drilling
+    Printing
+    Publishing
+    Real Estate
+    Retail
+    Security
+    Small Business
+    Taxes
+    Training and Schools
+    Telecommunications
+    Transportation
+    Venture Capital
+Computers
+    CAD
+    Computer Science
+    Consultants
+    Data Communications
+    Desktop Publishing
+    Education
+    Ethics
+    Fonts
+    Games -> Games:Video Games
+    Graphics
+    Hacking
+    Hardware
+    History
+    Internet
+    Multimedia
+    Open Source
+    Operating Systems
+    Programming
+    Robotics
+    Security
+    Shopping
+    Software
+    Systems
+Games
+    Board Games
+    Card Games
+    Coin-op Games
+    Collectible Card Games -> Games:Trading Cards
+    Dice Games
+    Fantasy Sports -> Sports:Fantasy
+    Gambling
+    Game Creation Systems
+    Game Design
+    Hand Games
+    Internet
+    Party Games
+    Puzzles
+    Retailers -> Shopping:Toys and Games
+    Roleplaying
+    Sports -> Sports
+    Tile Games
+    Trading Cards
+    Video Games
+    Yard and Deck Games
+Health
+    Aging
+    Alternative Medicine
+    Beauty
+    Children's Health
+    Conditions and Diseases
+    Dentistry
+    Disabilities -> Society:Disabled
+    Education
+    Fitness
+    Health Insurance -> Business:Insurance
+    Medicine
+    Men's Health
+    Mental Health
+    Nursing
+    Nutrition
+    Occupational Health and Safety
+    Pharmacy
+    Public Health and Safety
+    Reproductive Health
+    Seniors' Health
+    Services
+    Substance Abuse
+    Teen Health
+    Women's Health
+Home
+    Apartment Living
+    Cooking
+    Do-It-Yourself
+    Emergency Preparation
+    Entertaining
+    Family
+    Gardens
+    Home Improvement
+    Homemaking
+    Homeowners
+    Kids
+    Moving and Relocating
+    Nursery
+    Pets -> Recreation:Pets
+    Personal Finance
+    Personal Organization
+    Relatives
+    Rural Living
+    Shopping -> Shopping
+    Urban Living
+News
+    Alternative Media
+    Columnists
+    Current Events
+    Magazines
+    Media
+    Newspapers
+    Online
+    Politics
+    Satire
+    Weather
+Recreation
+    Air Hockey
+    Amateur Radio
+    Antiques
+    Audio
+    Autos
+    Aviation
+    Birdwatching
+    Boating
+    Bowling -> Sports:Bowling
+    Climbing
+    Collecting
+    Crafts -> Arts:Crafts
+    Drugs
+    Food and Drink
+    Games -> Games
+    Gardens -> Home:Gardens
+    Genealogy -> Society:Genealogy
+    Guns
+    Hot Air Ballooning
+    Humor
+    Kites
+    Knives
+    Living History
+    Martial Arts -> Sports:Martial Arts
+    Models
+    Motorcycles
+    Nudism
+    Outdoors
+    Parties
+    Pets
+    Roads and Highways
+    Scouting
+    Smoking
+    Sports -> Sports
+    Theme Parks
+    Trains and Railroads
+    Travel
+Reference & Education
+    Alumni
+    Colleges and Universities
+    Continuing Education
+    Corporate Training -> Business:Training and Schools
+    Distance Learning
+    International
+    K through 12
+    Libraries
+    Museums
+    Special Education
+    Vocational Education
+Regional
+    International
+    US
+Science
+    Agriculture
+    Alternative Science
+    Astronomy
+    Biology
+    Chemistry
+    Earth Sciences
+    Environment
+    Mathematics
+    Physics
+    Science in Society
+    Social Siences
+    Space
+    Technology
+Shopping
+    Antiques and Collectibles
+    Auctions
+    Books
+    Children
+    Classifieds
+    Clothing
+    Computers -> Computers:Shopping
+    Consumer Electronics
+    Crafts
+    Entertainment
+    Ethnic and Regional
+    Flowers
+    Food and Drink
+    Furniture
+    Gifts
+    Health and Beauty
+    Holidays
+    Home and Garden
+    Jewelry
+    Music
+    Niche
+    Office Products
+    Pets
+    Photography
+    Recreation and Hobbies
+    Religious
+    Sports
+    Tobacco
+    Tools
+    Toys and Games
+    Travel
+    Vehicles
+    Visual Arts
+    Weddings
+    Wholesale
+Society
+    Activism
+    Advice
+    Crime
+    Death
+    Disabled
+    Ethnicity
+    Folklore
+    Future
+    Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual
+    Genealogy
+    Government
+    History
+    Holidays
+    Issues
+    Law
+    Lifestyle Choices
+    Military
+    Paranormal
+    People
+    Philosophy
+    Politics
+    Recovery and Support Groups
+    Relationships
+    Religion and Spirituality
+    Sexuality
+    Subcultures
+    Transgendered
+    Work
+Sports
+    Archery
+    Badminton
+    Baseball
+    Basketball
+    Billiards
+    Boomerang
+    Bowling
+    Boxing
+    Cheerleading
+    Cricket
+    Croquet
+    Cycling
+    Darts
+    Equestrian
+    Extreme Sports
+    Fantasy
+    Fencing
+    Fishing
+    Flying Discs
+    Football
+    Golf
+    Greyhound Racing
+    Gymnastics
+    Handball
+    Hockey
+    Lacrosse
+    Laser Games
+    Lumberjack
+    Martial Arts
+    Motor Sports
+    Orienteering
+    Paintball
+    Racquetball
+    Rodeo
+    Roller Derby
+    Rope Skipping
+    Rugby
+    Running
+    Sailing
+    Shooting
+    Shopping -> Shopping:Sports
+    Skateboarding
+    Skating
+    Skiing
+    Sledding
+    Sled Dog Racing
+    Snowboarding
+    Soccer
+    Softball
+    Squash
+    Strength Sports
+    Table Tennis
+    Tennis
+    Track and Field
+    Volleyball
+    Walking
+    Water Sports
+    Winter Sports
+    Wrestling
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<HTML>
+  <HEAD>
+    <TITLE>Doc: Design Goals for Venice Project</TITLE>
+  </HEAD>
+
+  <BODY>
+    <H1>Design Goals for the Venice Project</H1>
+    <EM>Eric J. Bowersox &lt;<A HREF="mailto:erbo@silcom.com">erbo@silcom.com</A>&gt; - 
+    January 26, 2001</EM><P>
+
+    <OL>
+      <LI>A replacement for the CommunityWare/WebbMe conferencing system</LI>
+      <LI>Java/JSP/servlets implementation running under Apache Tomcat, MySQL backend</LI>
+      <LI>Multiple SIGs (communities) hosted per server, each with multiple conferences
+      (and other features); users logged into one server can join multiple SIGs</LI>
+      <LI>Conferencing functionality similar to CW/WebbMe:
+	<UL>
+	  <LI>Linear topics composed of HTML messages</LI>
+	  <LI>View topics by new messages/unread/all messages/hidden topics/archived topics</LI>
+	  <LI>Topics can be deleted/archived/made read-only by the conference host</LI>
+	  <LI>Topics can be hidden from a user's personal view</LI>
+	  <LI>Individual posts can be "hidden" or "scribbled" by owner or conference host</LI>
+	  <LI>Posts can be previewed, with spellchecking and HTML formatting</LI>
+	  <LI>Files can be "attached" to posts (up to 1 Mb in size)</EM>
+	</UL>
+      </LI>
+      <LI>Enhancements to existing conference features:
+	<UL>
+	  <LI>Full text search of posts within a conference</LI>
+	  <LI>Conference-level "bozo filters"</LI>
+	  <LI>Individual posts can be "nuked" without a trace by the conference host</LI>
+	</UL>
+      </LI>
+      <LI>Later, replace other CW/WebbMe functions:
+	<UL>
+	  <LI>Activity logs</LI>
+	  <LI>Instant messaging and chat (use Jabber)</LI>
+	  <LI>Calendaring</LI>
+	  <LI>Newsletters via e-mail</LI>
+	</UL>
+      </LI>
+      <LI>Features from CW/WebbMe we <EM>won't</EM> do:
+	<UL>
+	  <LI>Web hosting</LI>
+	  <LI>Web-based email</LI>
+	</UL>
+      </LI>
+      <LI>Blue sky features:
+	<UL>
+	  <LI>Output uses XML and gets formatted into [X]HTML via XSLT; "themeable"/"skinnable" interface</LI>
+	  <LI>Conferencing/other functionality available via XML-RPC or SOAP calls</LI>
+	  <LI>News page creation (see Slash, Squishdot, Scoop)</LI>
+	  <LI>Member trust metrics (see Slashdot "karma," Scoop "mojo," Advogato distributed trust metric)</LI>
+	  <LI>User diary pages (see Advogato, Kuro5hin)</LI>
+	  <LI>Moderated discussions (see Slash, Scoop)</LI>
+	  <LI>Collaborative database facility (see Wiki, Everything2)</LI>
+	  <LI>Content management/distributed publishing</LI>
+	</UL>
+      </LI>
+    </OL>
+
+  </BODY>
+</HTML>
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+GRAPHIC NOTES
+
+Buttons
+-------
+Standard button size - 80x24
+Button background - Brushed metal (Golden gradient), 2-pixel Bevel edge
+Button text - Helvetica Medium Narrow 12-point
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<HTML>
+  <HEAD>
+    <TITLE>Doc: About Venice Identifiers</TITLE>
+  </HEAD>
+
+  <BODY>
+    <H1>About Venice Identifiers</H1>
+    <EM>Eric J. Bowersox &lt;<A HREF="mailto:erbo@silcom.com">erbo@silcom.com</A>&gt; - 
+    January 26, 2001</EM><P>
+
+    Venice identifiers are used for user IDs, SIG aliases, and conference aliases (and maybe other unique
+    identifiers in the future).  A valid Venice ID consists of characters from the following character set
+    only:
+    <UL>
+      <LI>Alphanumerics [A-Z, a-z, and 0-9]</LI>
+      <LI>Dash [-]</LI>
+      <LI>Underscore [_]</LI>
+      <LI>Tilde [~]</LI>
+      <LI>Asterisk [*]</LI>
+      <LI>Apostrophe [']</LI>
+      <LI>Dollar sign [$]</LI>
+    </UL><P>
+    All characters are represented in the ISO 8859-1 character set.  Also note that all Venice identifiers
+    are case-insensitive.<P>
+    <B>Rationale</B><P>
+    The character set was defined starting with the list of characters allowable in URL path components
+    ("pchar" as defined in RFC 2396, section 3.3, page 14), so that Venice IDs would be usable as "path
+    information" in a URL.<P>
+    The ampersand [&] was eliminated because of its possible confusion with a URL parameter separator, and
+    because it requires HTML escaping.<P>
+    The at sign [@] was eliminated because of possible confusion with email addresses and Jabber IDs.<P>
+    The plus sign [+] was eliminated because of possible confusion with a URL-encoded space character.<P>
+    The comma [,] was eliminated because of its possible interpretation as a separator character.<P>
+    The equals sign [=] was eliminated because of its possible confusion with a URL parameter/value
+    separator.<P>
+    The colon [:] was withheld to provide for a possible future "namespace" expansion (as in XML
+    namespaces).<P>
+    The parentheses [(, )] were eliminated because of possible confusion with user link syntax in
+    conferencing.<P>
+    The period [.] was eliminated because of possible confusion with post link syntax in conferencing.<P>
+    The exclamation point [!] was eliminated because of possible confusion with extended post link syntax in
+    conferencing.
+
+  </BODY>
+</HTML>
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+JAVA PACKAGES USED BY VENICE SOURCE
+
+com.silverwrist - All packages
+
+  com.silverwrist.util - Generic utility packages
+
+  com.silverwrist.venice - Venice-specific code
+
+    com.silverwrist.venice.core - Core Venice engine code
+
+      com.silverwrist.venice.core.impl - Venice engine code implementation
+
+    com.silverwrist.venice.db - Database-management code
+
+    com.silverwrist.venice.htmlc - OLD html checker
+
+      com.silverwrist.venice.htmlc.impl - OLD HTML checker
+
+    com.silverwrist.venice.htmlcheck - The HTML Checker (interfaces, etc.)
+
+      com.silverwrist.venice.htmlcheck.impl - HTML checker implementation
+
+      com.silverwrist.venice.htmlcheck.filters - Standard filters
+
+    com.silverwrist.venice.security - Security management and data
+
+    com.silverwrist.venice.servlets - Java servlets at the top level
+
+      com.silverwrist.venice.servlets.format - HTML output formatter
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<HTML>
+  <HEAD>
+    <TITLE>Doc: Security Levels in Venice</TITLE>
+  </HEAD>
+
+  <BODY>
+    <H1>Security Levels in Venice</H1>
+    <EM>Eric J. Bowersox &lt;<A HREF="mailto:erbo@silcom.com">erbo@silcom.com</A>&gt; - 
+    January 26, 2001</EM><P>
+
+      The security level system in Venice is based on a concept of "levels" represented by small 16-bit
+      integers.  A number of different security "scope" values are defined, each with a "low band" and a
+      "high band" range of values, defined such that, for any scope level <EM>n</EM> (<EM>n</EM>&gt;=0),
+      the "low band" range for scope <EM>n</EM>+1 is immediately adjacent to, but greater than, the "low
+      band" range for scope <EM>n</EM>, and the "high band" range for scope <EM>n</EM>+1 is immediately
+      adjacent to, but less than, the "high band" range for scope <EM>n</EM>.  A table of scopes and their
+      ranges will help visualize this:<P>
+
+      <TABLE BORDER=1>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TH ALIGN=LEFT><B>Scope Level</B></TH>
+	  <TH ALIGN=LEFT><B>"Low Band" Range</B></TH>
+	  <TH ALIGN=LEFT><B>"High Band" Range</B></TH>
+	</TR>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>0</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>0-1999</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>63000-64999</TD>
+	</TR>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>1</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>2000-3999</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>61000-62999</TD>
+	</TR>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>2</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>4000-5999</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>59000-60999</TD>
+	</TR>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>3</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>6000-7999</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>57000-58999</TD>
+	</TR>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>4</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>8000-9999</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>55000-56999</TD>
+	</TR>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>5</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>10000-11999</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>53000-54999</TD>
+	</TR>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>6</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>12000-13999</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>51000-52999</TD>
+	</TR>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>7</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>14000-15999</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>49000-50999</TD>
+	</TR>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>8</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>16000-17999</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>47000-48999</TD>
+	</TR>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>9</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>18000-19999</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>45000-46999</TD>
+	</TR>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>10</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>20000-21999</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>43000-44999</TD>
+	</TR>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>11</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>22000-23999</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>41000-42999</TD>
+	</TR>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>12</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>24000-25999</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>39000-40999</TD>
+	</TR>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>13</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>26000-27999</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>37000-38999</TD>
+	</TR>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>14</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>28000-29999</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>35000-36999</TD>
+	</TR>
+        <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>15</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>30000-31999</TD>
+	  <TD ALIGN=LEFT>33000-34999</TD>
+	</TR>
+      </TABLE>
+
+      Within each scope level, a "low band" security level refers to an ordinary user at that scope, and a
+      "high band" security level refers to someone who exercises administrative control over that scope
+      (and therefore all scopes greater than or "inside" it).  Objects which are logically "enclosed" by
+      other objects have a higher scope value; for instance, a conference would have a higher scope value
+      than a SIG, which in turn would have a higher scope value than 0 (the "global" scope).<P>
+      The values 65000-65535 are not used, except that the value 65500 is defined as "no access" (something
+      not even the global system administrator can touch).  Neither are the values 32000-32999, except that
+      the value 32500 is defined as "unrestricted user" (lying above the low bands of all scopes but below
+      the high bands of any of them).<P>
+      Within the "global scope" (scope 0), the following values are defined:
+      <UL>
+        <LI>100 - User that has not logged in ("Anonymous Honyak")</LI>
+        <LI>500 - User that has logged in, but email address is unverified</LI>
+        <LI>1000 - User logged in and verified (normal user level)</LI>
+        <LI>64000 - Assistant administrator accounts ("PFY" level)</LI>
+        <LI>64999 - Global system administrator ("BOFH" level)</LI>
+      </UL><P>
+      SIGs use the scope level 3; the following values are defined within that scope:
+      <UL>
+        <LI>6500 - SIG member</LI>
+        <LI>58000 - SIG co-host</LI>
+	<LI>58500 - SIG host</LI>
+      </UL><P>
+      Within SIGs, conferences use scope 6; the following values are defined within that scope:
+      <UL>
+        <LI>12500 - Conference member (for private conferences)</LI>
+        <LI>52500 - Conference host</LI>
+      </UL><P>
+      Each user has a "base access" level, within scope 0, that is stored in the "users" table.  Each SIG
+      has four defined access levels associated with it:
+      <UL>
+        <LI><B>Read level</B> - minimum access level required to read the SIG's data. This is commonly 6500
+	(must be a member) but may be lower for special cases.</LI>
+        <LI><B>Write level</B> - minimum access level required to write the SIG's data. Since this refers to
+	the SIG itself, this is commonly 58000 (hosts/co-hosts only)</LI>
+        <LI><B>Create level</B> - minimum access level required to create new objects in the SIG.  Typically
+	58000 (hosts/co-hosts only).</LI>
+        <LI><B>Delete level</B> - minimum access level required to delete the SIG.  Typically 58500 (host
+	only).</LI>
+      </UL><P>
+      The "sigmember" table maps UIDs to SIGIDs, adding a "granted level" field that specifies a given user's
+      access level within the SIG itself.  (If a user already has a higher access level than the "granted"
+      access level, as in the case of the global sysadmin, the higher level takes precedence.)  Note that
+      this level grant is within the context of <EM>that SIG only,</EM> and does not affect access privileges
+      to any other SIG.<P>
+      Each conference has seven defined access levels associated with it:
+      <UL>
+        <LI><B>Read level</B> - minimum access level required to read the posts. Commonly 6500 (member of
+	community) for public confs, 12500 (conference member) for private confs.</LI>
+        <LI><B>Post level</B> - minimum access level required to post new messages. Commonly 6500 (member of
+	community) for public confs, 12500 (member of conference) for private confs.</LI>
+        <LI><B>Create level</B> - minimum access level required to create new topics. Commonly 6500 (member
+	of community) for public confs, 12500 (member of conference) for private confs.</LI>
+        <LI><B>Hide level</B> - minimum access level required to archive topics, or hide posts of which you
+	are not the owner.  Commonly 52500 (conference hosts only).</LI>
+        <LI><B>Nuke level</B> - minimum access level required to scribble posts of which you are not the
+	owner, to nuke posts, or to delete topics.  Commonly 52500 (conference hosts only).</LI>
+        <LI><B>Change level</B> - minimum access level required to change the conference's profile or
+	membership list.  Commonly 52500 (conference hosts only).</LI>
+        <LI><B>Delete level</B> - minimum access level required to delete the conference.  Commonly 58000
+	(hosts/cohosts of the enclosing SIG only).</LI>
+      </UL><P>
+      As with SIGs, there is a "confmember" table that maps UIDs to CONFIDs, adding a "granted level" field
+      that grants additional access privileges.  (There is also a field in the table that maps conferences
+      into SIGs that allows a SIG to grant its users additional privileges within a conference.  Normally,
+      this field is 0, and so it "drops out" of the calculation of access levels.) Note that, if a user has
+      no membership entry for a conference, the entry for the conference's enclosing SIG takes precedence,
+      or the base level if there is no entry in any enclosing SIG.  Also note that a grant of level for a
+      conference or SIG only applies with respect to <EM>that</EM> conference or SIG, not any other.<P>
+      Additional scopes and levels will be defined for additional objects as they are added to Venice.<P>
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