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My Suggestion for a Bios Page
By Terry Smythe

Jody, I've sent through a message to MMD containing a suggestion for a
member "bio" page as part of our future MMD web site.    I can
appreciate that this suggestion carries with it a substantial workload
that may not be appropriate for you and your resources.  Feel free to
choose not to post this message if you believe it to be inappropriate.

Regards,

Terry

 [ Editor's note:
 [
 [ I've intentionally included _BOTH_ messages.  Thats because I think
 [ the suggestion in the first message is a good idea and that I don't
 [ think I'll have time to mess with it for a while.
 [
 [ On the other hand, several of you have expressed support for my
 [ Web site and further one of you took the trouble to send me a
 [ carefully edited (and glitzy) page to try out.  Although I have not
 [ posted that offerred Web page it the effort is appreciated.  Further
 [ some or all of the "stuff" in that Web page may get used once
 [ get caught up.
 [
 [ I hope to be able to get things to where we could support user-provided
 [ Web pages.  I'd like to propose that I'll put up people's Web pages
 [ with the following ground rules:
 [
 [   1) I'll put them up 'when I get around to it'.
 [
 [   2) I can take any or all of them off without explanation.
 [
 [   3) Content smells biographical.
 [
 [   4) Discussion of current areas of interest, including business
 [      interests is OK.
 [
 [   5) Multiple pages are OK.
 [
 [   5) Pointers to other sites, including business related, are OK.
 [
 [   6) Anything smelling like an ad needs to be in good taste an
 [      on a seperate Web page so I can delete it easly, leaving
 [      behind just your bio.
 [
 [   7) Web pages generally consist of multiple files. All of the
 [      files of a submission should be collected into a single "archive"
 [      (a .ZIP file) and sent as an e-mail enclosure to "rollreq@foxtail.com".
 [
 [   8) I'll consider other transmission formats (such as direct FTP) later.
 [      For now I'm trying to conserve workload and this method is easy for
 [      me.  Mac users accept my apology in advance for leaving you out.
 [
 [   9) Sending me multiple pages, pictures, etc, is OK, but the base page
 [      must have the name "index.htm" (or index.html).
 [
 [  10) In order to take care of the naming conflicts between differrent
 [      subscriber's submissions, I'll put each set of pages in a seperate
 [      directory on the server.  In reality, I'll actually use the
 [      name of the user (i.e. Jody_Kravitz would be the directory name
 [      for myself).  Most of you making submissions won't be able to
 [      do testing with such long names.  So do your testing with everything
 [      in _some_ subdirectory name of your choosing and enclose a README.TXT
 [      explaining the name of the subdirectory and anything else I need
 [      to know.  Include the README.TXT in the .ZIP file. DO NOT USE THE
 [      BODY OF THE EMAIL MESSAGE FOR THE README.
 [
 [  11) Netscape Gold, as well as some other tools allow editing Web pages
 [      "offline" (in other words you don't have to have a Web site to
 [      do the editing.
 [
 [  12) If you don't know what I'm talking about, above, then please wait
 [      until the few that do get their Web pages up.  Then I'll let them
 [      do the explaining.  Otherwise it'll take too much time!
 [
 [  Jody



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