[Magdalen] Private-ish repository for vestry documents?

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I think that is a great idea.  People would not be able to get into it
without permission, and it isn't readily visible to those who might want to
look for it.  I'm a big believer in hiding by not being readily seen in the
first place. Sites that are there but restricted make challenges to
hackers, but if they don't realize something is there to begin with, there
is nothing for them to "go after."

Of course, if you truly want security, put it on a thumb drive and have
copies. Periodically copy from the true master to the copies and put stuff
on the true master as needed. Just be sure you know where each copy is at
all times.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Our gallery has an "internal communications" area on our Facebook page. You
> have to be added to it by the page manager. It works really well.
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > One of our wardens and our clerk want me to create an online home for
> > Vestry minutes and related documents. Their initial idea was for me to
> > create an unpublished page on our website, available only to those who
> > have the URL, and I'd make the URL hard to make up. That's sort of
> > private but of course might still be crawlable by search engines.
> > Turns out this isn't possible anyway, because unpublished pages on the
> > site can be seen only by the webmaster while logged in.
> >
> > We might pay extra for a private-access area on our site, but what are
> > some of the best alternatives for posting internal documents so
> > parishioners can see them but not the general public? We've
> > experimented with Dropbox, which is one option.
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >
>