old profiles (Re: hands up)

Eva Ekeblad (eva.ekeblad who-is-at ped.gu.se)
Sat, 14 Nov 1998 14:28:07 +0100 (MET)

Hi Ilias and everybody

Yes, there are many more than 50 people on the XMCA -- now that the sysops
have restored the truncated distribution list there are circa 300
subscribers.

When you point the xmca readers to the corner of the MCA website where the
old profiles are still accessible, I sort of wince -- it's so OLD, you are
right it's the very first XMCAers, the first people to resubscribe when the
XLCHC was re-opened in Sept 1995 under its new name and with its new
subscription procedure, including obligatory self-description. There's no
guarantee those people are still on the list, even.

At 17.43 +0000 98-11-13, Ilias Karasavvidis wrote:
>If I remember correctly, this whole thread was initiated because the
>the participants lost track of who is out there. I have tried to
>check this in the past, but all I came up with was a list of
>less than 50 people (while there are reasons to believe that there
>are many more):
>http://communication.ucsd.edu/MCA/Descriptions/MCA_profile_index.html
>
>Judging from the entry dates, these people must have been the very
>first xcma-ers! :-)
>Wouldn't it be a good idea to set up a site with all current xcma
>subsribers? (provided that such a site/page does not actually exist).

You know, I think it would be a good idea to have some kind of collection
of links to the HOME PAGES of XMCAers, that is, those XMCAers who want to
be seen in the company :-)

So, as I'm thinking there are people out there who know more about Web
technology than I do: is there a way to do this that is more or less
self-maintaining? That is, is there, for example, some kind of token that
people could include in their home page which sort of links all the sites,
without having to be maintained at one specific site??? Something each
home-steader could put in as needed and cut out as needed?

I think this is such an important question I'll stop here for now.

Eva