Send them links.  Even my AOL using mom can cut and paste an IP address with 
port number.  I make them simple gallery pages with Igal or konqueror and 
send them links via email.  You would be surprised at what people can do, 
given an incentive.  

I served with boa for a long time but have moved to caudium.

http://70.177.55.67:1024/caudium.html

Nothing fancy required.  Just a P90 with 48MB RAM or so.  The cable connection 
is a little slow, despite the increased upload rates.  I'm serving the family 
1 to 2 MB images.  Igal helps by loading up the next imagewhile you look at 
the current one.  This is an example:

http://70.177.55.67:1024/photo_album/chron/2005_03_25_elizabeth_and_ellie/

It's been more useful to me than the family.  I have html access to classwork 
for my friends and ssh access to classwork ,music and other stuff.  It takes 
time to move things, but it's fast enough to be practical for about 100 MB 
transfers.  Compared to download speeds, upload takes forever.  Konqueror 
brings sftp to the level of click and drool, which is very nice.  My little 
brother has made use of it, but everyone else in the family is on Winblows 
which I would not trust to connect by ssh even if there were free clients as 
nice as konqueror for them to use.  So, the family is limited to browsing 
pictures and that's a shame.  

On Monday 02 May 2005 09:37 pm, Adam Melancon wrote:
> Yes, but if i used 443 then everyone would have to type in https when
> accessing the site.
> This is for relatives to see pics of the baby, and I know most of them
> will just type melancon.org and leave off the https://

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