World: r3wp

im wondering what is the best way of providing permalinks for mechanical 
parts, like pipe fittings.
i'd like to provide a catalog of them for a couple of companies.

each company has their own part number system which unambigously 
identifies a product. i would expose a description page about these 
as:
/company/part-number

it would however look cryptic and wouldn't empasize what is that 
page about, so we were thinking about attaching a slug to it, to 
help human usage and search engines too.

Q1: im not very sure about how much more effective from a SEO point 
of view to have a slug in the URL as opposed to keywords in meta 
tags and the same description as in the title of the page for example.

Q2: would it be okay to add the slug as an extra  path level, like 
stackoverflow.com does?

Search engines don't use meta keywords anymore

Q3: do u know any article describing best practices regarding permalinks/slugs?

A structured description in a title tag would be OK, but it seems 
that URLs help extra

I use a unique identifier such as a date, followed by a textual description 
in the rest of the URL

it's not a news site, so there might be issues with the unqueness 
of the slug and other things like, i might need to display the nominal 
size of the part which is a fraction in many cases, lile 1-1/4" which 
wouldnt read nice at all if i have to replace the slash. the dbl 
quote might be okay to omit though

Yes, readability is a problem, so URLs are often more optimised for 
search engines than for human readers

1/4" would be 0.25-inch

No, it;s two hoon in this part of the world.

http://typekit.com/

do u specify the slug manually or let some automatism hint u with 
a possibility 1st?

I just have an extra field short-name

But you have to train your users on it

Well, I've been using rebol for 11 years, but never have used altme 
for support. But I have a

OOPS! I have a problem send email with authentication required. using 
the following

set-net [[tim-:-mydomain-:-com] mail.mydomain.com mail.mydomain.com none 
none none [tim-:-mydomain-:-com] '*******'] where 'mydomain' replaces my 
domain and asterisk obfuscate the password, if I send a message I 
get the following : connecting to: mail.mydomain.com

** User Error: Server error: tcp 503 AUTH command used when not advertised
** Near: smtp-port: open [scheme: 'esmtp] 
either only

Have I used set-net properly? :) the ML appears to have died. I find 
this very cumbersome for sharing code. Any other place for support?

Tim, click the pencil, then you can easily share multiple lines of 
code.

http://rebolforum.com

got it Kaj and been there. Will use.

And thanks Henrik. I see the pencil. Any ideas anyone?

Following is error trace.

>> send [tim-:-akwebsoft-:-com] "testing rebol"                        
                                             
Net-log: ["Opening" "tcp" "for" "esmtp"]
connecting to: mail.akwebsoft.com
Net-log: [none "220"]

Net-log: {220-host266.hostmonster.com ESMTP Exim 4.76 #1 Sun, 09 
Oct 2011 11:45:39 -0600 }

Net-log: {220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport 
unsolicited, }
Net-log: "220 and/or bulk e-mail."
Net-log: [["HELO" system/network/host] "250"]
Net-log: {250 host266.hostmonster.com Hello bart [64.4.232.191]}
Net-log: ["AUTH CRAM-MD5" "334"]
Net-log: ["WARNING! Using plain authentication."]

Net-log: [{AUTH PLAIN dGltQGFrd2Vic29mdC5jb20AdGltQGFrd2Vic29mdC5jb20AdEhqMTk0OSc=} 
    "235"
]

** User Error: Server error: tcp 503 AUTH command used when not advertised
** Near: smtp-port: open [scheme: 'esmtp] 
either only

The rebol client should send "EHLO" and not "HELO"

As a result, the servere does not advertise any authentication methods

Maybe you're using an old esmtp protocol .. as mine sends EHLO

>> set-net [[tim-:-akwebsoft-:-com] mail.akwebsoft.com mail.akwebsoft.com 
none none none [tim-:-akwebsoft-:-com] "****" ]
>> send [tim-:-akwebsoft-:-com] "testing"
Net-log: ["Opening" "tcp" "for" "esmtp"]
connecting to: mail.akwebsoft.com
Net-log: [none "220"]

Net-log: {220-host266.hostmonster.com ESMTP Exim 4.76 #1 Sun, 09 
Oct 2011 12:00:11 -0600 }

Net-log: {220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport 
unsolicited, }
Net-log: "220 and/or bulk e-mail."
Net-log: [["EHLO" system/network/host] "250"]

Net-log: {250-host266.hostmonster.com Hello Graham-PC [203.97.98.9]}
Net-log: "250-SIZE 52428800"
Net-log: "250-PIPELINING"
Net-log: "250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN"
Net-log: "250-STARTTLS"
Net-log: "250 HELP"
Net-log: ["Supported auth methods:" [plain login]]
Net-log: ["WARNING! Using AUTH LOGIN."]
Net-log: [
    "AUTH LOGIN" "334"
]
Net-log: "334 VXNlcm5hbWU6"
Net-log: ["dGltQGFrd2Vic29mdC5jb20=" "334"]
Net-log: "334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6"
Net-log: ["KioqKg==" "235"]

** User Error: Server error: tcp 535 Incorrect authentication data
** Near: smtp-port: open [scheme: 'esmtp]
either only

Not sure what to do about the 'old protocol'. Is there a way to change 
it? I'm using 2.6.2.4.2

2.7.8.3.1

Get the latest esmtp protocol

Where? Huh, I thought it was compiled in..

So?  You can run it again to replace the encapped version

OK, down loaded 2.7.8.4.2 (for linux). Now I get 'tcp 535 Incorrect 
authentication data'

trace?

>> send [tim-:-akwebsoft-:-com] "testing rebol"                        
                                              
Net-log: ["Opening" "tcp" "for" "esmtp"]
connecting to: mail.akwebsoft.com
Net-log: [none "220"]

Net-log: {220-host266.hostmonster.com ESMTP Exim 4.76 #1 Sun, 09 
Oct 2011 12:12:54 -0600 }

Net-log: {220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport 
unsolicited, }
Net-log: "220 and/or bulk e-mail."
Net-log: [["EHLO" system/network/host] "250"]
Net-log: {250-host266.hostmonster.com Hello bart [64.4.232.191]}
Net-log: "250-SIZE 52428800"
Net-log: "250-PIPELINING"
Net-log: "250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN"
Net-log: "250-STARTTLS"
Net-log: "250 HELP"
Net-log: ["Supported auth methods:" [plain login]]
Net-log: ["WARNING! Using AUTH LOGIN."]
Net-log: [
    "AUTH LOGIN" "334"
]
Net-log: "334 VXNlcm5hbWU6"
Net-log: ["dGltQGFrd2Vic29mdC5jb20=" "334"]
Net-log: "334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6"
Net-log: ["dEhqMTk0OSc=" "235"]

** User Error: Server error: tcp 535 Incorrect authentication data
** Near: smtp-port: open [scheme: 'esmtp] 
either only

well, your password or userid must be incorrect

:) Yes. Did I tell you that I'm a python programmer too? That python 
accepts single quotes? That I put in 'password' instead of "password". 
@#$%! So it got a symbol instead of a string?

Just got the message back, yours too. So, I owe you a beer. Come 
on by and collect.

:) Signing off..

Ah... the numbers of beers I am owed ... I just have to travel 1000s 
of miles to collect them!

Rather than a beer, you may make a donation to Medecins Sans Frontieres 
in my name http://www.msf.ca/donate/donate-online/:)

Is there anybody using web fonts? I wonder what is the best way how 
to start. I know there is TypeKit, Google web fonts, http://kernest.com/
and maybe other. What I can say, Google must improve it as it's not 
working well enough.

As usually, problem is with IE compatibility. And in my case also 
need for extended chars. The best would be a tool where one could 
create or modify own fonts. http://openfontlibrary.org/fonts

Ach.. so this tool is my solution: http://code.google.com/p/ttf2eot/

I use google web-fonts, works OK so far.

This is the right tool for converting fonts for the web usage - http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
 (as it allows subsetting) At least for fonts with good copyrights.

I need post data as multipart  ( .jpg uploads from rebol as client 
) looks like I need cookies-daemon_latest ,  but  http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/cookies-daemon_latest.r
is not accesible anymore ....