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Re: MichLUG Meeting Summary - 3/10/2001
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Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:38:54 GMT
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Amy & All,

I'll have a host next week. But first...

Cool.

Everyone knows HTML. Or has a page editor that knows
HTML. We can't all write
it, we don't have the organization in place to do it by
committee, and we won't
all get what we want.

Indeed.

I've offered to arrange free hosting. I'll soon have to
expend effort and the
good will of friends to get it. Before I do so I need to
make the following
things clear...

All right..

1) I will be the only one with write access to the site,
so the home page,
links page, events page, etc. will be maintained by me.

That's fine by me. Did you see the North Georgia Train Club
layout? That's a nice one. http://www.ngltc.org

2) I'd be happy to take suggestions on what should appear
on the site, and I'd
even take completed HTML if it's better than mine, but if
I'm hosting it it
will follow these rules...

See above for my suggestions, I think that came out nicely.
Clean. I have to find that logo, I have it here somewhere!

a) No tacky stuff (e.g. bad formatting, animated GIFs,
huge or unnecessary
graphics, cookies, javascript, etc.)

Agreed.

b) Clean HTML (i.e. it must be human-readable,
well-formatted and contain no
extraneous garbage - some HTML editors make a mess of the
code)
c) No advertising, except for links to LEGO-related stuff
(e.g. Lugnet,
lego.com, etc.)

Yes, especially on the front page. I would think that you
can have links on your personal sales site, Brickbay, etc.
Like Larry P. Milton Trainworks, for example. I won't need
to worry about that anymore. : ) If someone has a special
discount for club members or something, we might want to
handle that differently.

3) Each member will have a page for personal info, links,
an optional picture
or likeness, etc.  This information will be gathered by a
web form and the page
will be automatically generated, kinda like Lugnet's
member info pages. This
automation will take time, so initially the web form will
email the info to me
and I'll generate the page. If you like writing HTML you
can email me your
complete page, or give me a link to it.

That's cool. I just need a link, you don't want to see my
code for the pages! : )

4) Each member *might* have a michlug.org email address
that will forward to
your own email address, subject to these restrictions...

a) You can not send email from michlug.org, but you can
receive forwarded email
from there.
b) If your ISP allows, you can use your michlug.org
address as your return
address in email.
c) You can not subscribe to mailing lists using your
michlug.org address, or do
anything else that is high-volume. It is up to you to
ensure your address is
not spammed to death. I will post guidelines on how to
accomplish that.
d) Email received at your michlug.org address that isn't
specifically addressed
to you in the 'To' or Cc' fields (e.g. most spam), and
large attachments (e.g.
graphics) will be discarded rather than forwarded.
e) Michlug.org email addresses may be deactivated at any
time for any reason.
Michlug.org will not be a service provider, and therefore
will not have the
resources to deal with email hassles. Therefore...
f) It is recommeded you use your michlug.org email
address only for
non-critical and non-personal stuff. Like lugnet
newsgroup posting.
g) No smut, harrassment, spam or fraud through your
michlug.org address.
h) Automated monitoring of these rules may flag email
that I need to look at,
so your michlug.org email address is by no means private.
See (f), above. BTW,
your ISP does this, too.
i) In short, handling email can be a huge pain, so it may
not get done, and if
it does, it may be rescinded at any time. Don't abuse it.

Heh, well, it's no big deal if we do or don't.

5) We'll have 100M of space, which is way more than we'll
need for our pages,
so we'll be able to store event photos there. But MOC
photos should still be
stored off-site (e.g. brickshelf).

Yes, only event photos should do fine. links can handle
other peoples creations.

These are the rules, if I'm going to do the hosting. If
this is unacceptable,
please tell me before I set it up. The beauty of having
the domain registration
handled by someone else (Scott Sanburn) is that someone
else has veto power
over what I do. If you don't like the site I create,
Scott can change the name
servers on the registration and ZAP - it now points
somewhere else, under
someone else's control.

I don't think I have any objections, thank you for the
effort Amy. It all sounds just fine.  : )

Scott S.
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(...) <snip> I'm with Scott. While on first read what Amy said may sound harsh to some folks, the reality is whoever does the work should get a lot of the say, so I say let's do it Amy's way, she's offered to manage the whole site which is a lot of (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)

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