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From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 14:19:34 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 14:19:34 -0500
Subject: 'UpDates' Instant Archive Now Available on Web

Please read the following announcement,
suggestions and my comments in []s _carefully_
and abide by the rules for posting.

I must emphasize that in order for the List and
Archive to function together, the rules laid out
below _will_ be enforced. It will benefit us all.
both now and in the future.

ebk
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Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 19:10:31 -0800
To: updates@globalserve.net
From: campbell@ufomind.com (Glenn Campbell, Las Vegas)
Subject: UFO UpDates Instant Archive Now Available on Web

For your browsing pleasure, messages from UFO UpDates are now archived
immediately on the web at:

http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates

The last three days' messages are listed on the main page.  Older messages
are listed by month.  The archive was started on Dec. 12, and we hope to
maintain it forever.

This automated archive is provided as a public service by the Area 51
Research Center (i.e. "me").  I wrote the software for this because I found
the mailing list interesting, but I couldn't deal with the email load
generated every day.

The Research Center has no control over content, and all editorial
decisions are still made by Errol.

When posting messages to the list, I hope people will observe these rules
in deference to the web version:

-- Make sure your subject line is as descriptive as possible.  On the web,
as in email, if people aren't interested in your subject line, they aren't
going to look at your message.

-- Keep quoted material from previous messages to a minimum:  Just quote
enough text to let people know what you are responding to. [Excessive quoting
will result in your message being returned to you]

-- Start each quoted line with a greater-than sign (>) as the first
character.  The Archive software will automatically italicize these lines.
[Messages that do not utilize the required quoting protocol will not be
posted to UFO Updates]

-- Don't send 'personal' responses to the list that should be sent directly
to the original author.  Send a message to the list only if it it
contains new information that you want EVERYONE to see.

-- URLs _must_ include http:// and be on one line in order to be a
'clickable' link to that address.

-- My preference:  Don't send long documents that are already on the web.
Just send an URL and a brief synopsis instead.

The aims are....

-- To provide people with an alternate way to view the messages at their
leisure. Instead of dealing with dozens of email messages, you can just
check the web every few days. [Some subscribers complain that the volume
of traffic is "too much" and for them the Archive will be a comfortable
alternative.]  Through the magic of computer technology, new messages
are added to the web immediately.

-- To provide messages in a convenient format, with headers minimized
and URLs activated.

-- To provide a permanent URL for each message, so each can be reliably
linked from other web documents.

The latter goal is the most challenging.  The downside is that the mailing
list eats up megabytes -- about 6 megs per month.  Since I pay for web
service by the meg and by transfer rate, this can start running into some
serious cash as the archive grows, and maintaining a permanent archive
means the monthly charges get bigger and bigger each month.  To try to
recoup these costs, I have added a link to our mail-order catalog at the
bottom of each page.  I hope the link is discreet enough to not bother
people but annoying enough to generate sales to pay for the site.  Profit
is not my goal here; I just need to pay those growing monthly charges.

To be able to maintain a permanent archive, it is important to keep down
message size.  I'd like to eventually see the 6 mgs/month reduced, perhaps
by a combination of strategies.  One problem is the reposting of long
documents that are already available elsewhere on the web.  I know that
some UFO UpDates subscribers don't have web access, but it also seems
senseless to overburden subscribers who do have web access and to save
the same documents twice on the web. (This is a philosophical problem;
but I predict that the web will win eventually.)

Eventually, I might have no choice but eliminate old messages.  One way to
do this might be to delete all messages that no other web pages have linked
to.  (Through the magic of computer technology, I can figure this out,
provided the external link generates at least one Netscape hit per month.)
Therefore, you can probably be assured that if you link to a message at its
current address, the message will stick around at that address, hopefully
forever.  (The rule may be, "Link it or lose it.")

Readers are also invited to examine our newly redesigned UFO People section
at http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/people.  It has been reincarnated as a series
of link pages modeled after Yahoo.  You can add your own links to each
page!  (If any messages appear on UFO Updates reflecting on a person's
research, theories, personality or credibility, please feel free to link
the message directly to that person's page.)

Here at the Research Center, we believe in freedom through technology.  By
the wonders of science, we CAN make this a better world.

Glenn Campbell

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