[PEN-L:11817] Re: ups and the need for a pen-l web site

["Harry M. Cleaver" <hmcleave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Michael Perelman wrote:

> I am getting very positive feedback about Michael E.'s UPS postings,
> plus a couple of complaints about the volume that one individual is
> sending.
>

Michael: I may have an unusually powerful delete finger, but I don't mind
using it and E's postings are good whether on pen-l or labor-l or
elsewhere.

>
> Harry Cleaver was doing something similar -- on a smaller scale with
> Chiapas, but now he uses the web and his own list -- which is probably
> the appropriate way to go.
>
> I do wish that someone had the time and the expertise to create a web
> site for pen-l -- so that we could have information such as Michael is
> providing in a handier form.
>

Michael:Creating a web page for pen-l is simple, I could do it for you
anytime. The only problem is who is going to do something with it. If you
look at the chiapas95 page you'll see not only subscription information
and hotlinks to the gopher site archives of the list (which already exists
for pen-l) but a variety of special collections of materials, e.g., on
the Zapatistas and the Net. While anyone could prepare such a collection
--say on the UPS strike-- you still need a webmaster to receive the
material and put intros and links on the page. THAT, I'm afraid I don't
have time to do. Can you? Do you know html, or how to use a web page
editor such as the one in Netscape 3.0 Gold? What makes web pages useful
is when they grow and change and evolve so as to bring things to peoples
attention, gather materials that are useful, etc. If you`re willing to be
the webmaster, I'll whip you out a basic webpage and send it to you.
Someone like E could prepare all the UPS material into a packet and you
could insert it into the csf gopher site where the pen-l archives are, or
he could keep it on his local server and just give you the link and a
paragraph of prose to introduce it on the web site.

Harry


> Also, I would like to know if my sample is biased -- if more of you
> think that the volume of Michael's postings are burdensome, or if you
> appreciate the service he is performing.  I am only raising the question
> because 1) it has been posed to me and 2) I would like to know how to
> make the list as useful as possible.
>
>
> --
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
> Chico, CA 95929
>
> Tel. 916-898-5321
> E-Mail michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>

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Harry Cleaver
Department of Economics
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712-1173  USA
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               (off) (512) 475-8535   Fax:(512) 471-3510
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