Family-friendly contact manager

Mark Komarinski mkomarinski at wayga.org
Wed Apr 20 16:01:02 EDT 2005


On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 03:40:26PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Tom Buskey <tbuskey at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > How about a Yahoo account w/ a shared passwd?
> > This information isn't available for search.
> > Of course you'd have an issue with controlling edits/etc..
> >
> > Yahoo can also be sync'd with a Palm (on a PC).
> 
> For that matter, how about an htpasswd protected Wiki?
> That way people can make changes on their own.
> 
> Of course, a cooler idea would be a password protected LDAP server
> with a decent web-frontend allowing family members to edit their data.
> Then they could just point their e-mail app at the LDAP server and not
> have to worry about remembering e-mail addresses.

Well that's what I was really looking for, or something MySQL backed so they
can make an ODBC call to print out holiday labels.  Strangely enough,
I think we'd find more use for that than easily looking up e-mail
addresses.

-Mark
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