Some weeks ago, there was mention of one day establishing a home page
for MMD.  I appreciate this is a substantial task and may be an
oppportunity for some of us to lend a helping hand to our moderator,
Jody.

I would like to put on the table for consideration the possibility of
setting up a "bios" page within the home page, containing the
biographical data, email address, home page address, and possibly even
a picture of our members.

To gain an appreciation for what I have in mind, those interested are
invited to visit a similar web site I maintain as moderator of another
automated mailing list.

      http://www.freenet.mb.ca/taxi

Click on "thumbnail bios" in para 1 of page 1 that comes up.

When I retired 2 years ago from GM of the Manitoba Taxicab Board, I
retained my interest in trying to help this unique industry, and found
an interesting way to do so by setting up an automated mailing list,
and a web page as a resource site for significant documentation.  It's
the only site of its type known at the moment on the 'Net, serving this
industry.

I keep the "bios" page real simple, with a minimum of HTML coding, to
minimize maintenance effort.  The pictures are in 2 forms - a tiny
"thumbnail" picture which, when clicked, will bring in a full size
picture for those inclined.  Using a 28.8 modem, the "thumbnail" page
currently takes about 1.5 minutes to load because it is unavoidably
graphics intensive.

Those wishing to have their pictures included send me either a graphics
image, or a real photo by snail mail.  I scan it on a modest scanner I
have, and return the photo.  So far the maintenance load is tolerable,
but then my group is just under 200 compared to MMD's 300+.

I would be prepared to undertake development and maintenance of such a
page for MMD, if indeed that is even possible remotely.

Something to think about.

Regards,

Terry

•Terry Smythe                    (204) 832-3982 (voice/fax)
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Winnipeg, MB, Canada   R3J 2n6  smythe@freenet.mb.ca
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