[13407] in APO-L
www.apo.org, ASAP!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Dwiggins)
Wed Dec 13 20:18:07 1995
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 20:20:44 -0500
Reply-To: David Dwiggins <dmdwiggi@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU>
From: David Dwiggins <dmdwiggi@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
>There's no real reason why www.apo.org couldn't exist far sooner than
>a year, except for the national office not wanting it to exist. It
>shouldn't even be hard to find somebody willing to host it on their
>virtual web server (a single machine that does web service for many
>domains) for free.
Heck, there's no reason it couldn't exist on its own server! You can run
an extremely capable webserver on an off-the-shelf Mac running Webstar for
dirt cheap! You would still need an ISP to provide the internet
connection, but the server would run on a simple old Mac like someone
probably has sitting around in their garage! (I have heard of people
running websites on olf Macintosh IIfx's and IIcx's!)
As for the pages themselves, there is nothing to be afraid of... I can
understand the concern about the electronic versions having errors, but
there is a simple way to get around that: proofreading. The National
Office could set up a committee to create the authoritative pages for the
national site, and they could all be proofread very carefully before being
posted.
I am sure there are plenty of brothers who have the skills to work on this
kind of project, and would be glad to pitch in to help bring the national
office into the 90s!
-David Dwiggins
Phi Chapter, Syracuse University
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