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RE: KTVU Offer for Lego Users Club
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Thu, 17 Jun 1999 22:37:45 GMT
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Hi,
Oh well, Some more thoughts:
I quote from Lorry's original note:
"and you can employ it as your main promotional tool or simply as a page
that bridges
out to another site you've already created."
This seems to me pretty clear that its OK to have links to our original
site. How many links have they removed so far? I don't see this as a big
issue, unless they get a complaint about a link. If they want to control the
content and links to existing organizations' web sites, they won't get many
participants. I think its more of an out so they can kill links to
"undesirable" content... Like the picture of my rear end on Russell's page.
;-D
If they want new content each week, how about we link in the loc.us.ca.sf
traffic for the last week, with Todd's OK of course. I find it hard to
believe that Cox expects any small to medium sized non-profit or community
group to have something going on to report or update the site
"substantially" weekly. Unless the group is the United Way or something
with loads of members, or weekly events. Lets just tell them we only have 1
big event each quarter, and "Thank you but we do not expect to require
weekly changes to the site."
I think we should tell them what we want to do, and let Lorry smooth it for
us! The worst thing that happens is either they won't let us in, or we get
kicked off for not having sufficiently dynamic and compelling content, and
end up back where we are now. Fine with me.
Comments?
Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zonker Harris [mailto:zonkerh@corp.webtv.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 1:46 PM
> To: Mark Benz
> Subject: RE: KTVU Offer for Lego Users Club
>
>
> > Not being a "baylug web coder" this may be a stupid • question, but couldn't
> > we just mirror the first two pages of the Baylug site to Bay • Insider, and
> > not have to maintain 2 sites?
>
> Unfortunately, it's not going to be that simple. :-(
>
> The Bay Insider project is part of a larger Cox Media production.
> By signing up, we get access to a front-end tool to make web pages
> within their environment (basically, filling fields on the records
> of a large text and image-capable database). We can add HTML to some
> fields, but we will still be contrained by the tools.
>
> The publishing agreement includes the expected rules and
> disclaimers,
> but has one sentence that may be a problem. I quote:
>
> "We also reserve the right to remove any link from your
> pages to any
> other on-line service."
>
> Now, BayLUG isn't AOL or Earthlink...but I don't know if
> the links to
> members pages on BayLUG.org will bother the Cox censors. We can try to
> put something together, and see what they say.
>
> The other issue that may plague us, is that they expect the content
> to be 'fresh', changing at least weekly. I quote again:
>
> "Once your pages are built, your representative update and
> substantially
> refresh your content regularly (typically at least every week)."
>
> This means that our delegate/weaver for the Bay Insider pages will
> likely need to be somewhat active. Since they will be posting an email
> address for folks to write for more info, I suppose the Bay Insider
> weaver could also work up a BayLUG FAQ page, based on the questions
> from other folks. ;-)
>
> So, while this could be good exposure for our young group, it's
> will require a bit of labor from someone in the group. Do I hear any
> volunteers for the job?
>
> They will, of course, be putting little banner ads on our pages,
> but I must also say that I like the overall look and feel of the
> Bay Insider site, and I haven't found the ads to be too distracting,
> at least so far.
>
> -Z-
>
>
> -- 8<----( clip and save! )-------------------------------------
> http://baylug.org/carlsbad99.html Grand Opening Planning Page
> http://baylug.org/zonker/ my main page
> http://baylug.org/zonker/ZFSOne.html the Firehouse
> http://baylug.org/zonker/ZRondDom.html the Round House
> http://baylug.org/zonker/ZTrajnoj.html my trains page
> http://baylug.org/zonker/ZSignal.html LED signal circuit
> http://baylug.org/zonker/tables/building.html table plans
> David K. Z. Harris frenezulo@esperanto.org
> "It's a good start, but I'm always looking for a few more LEGOs"
>
>
>
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| (...) Sounds like a legal out so that links to adult sites and less than desirable content can be deleted without hassle. It probably will work in our favor too being that we're family-oriented to a big degree. We had a few families drop by at the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| (...) Mark, I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "link ... traffic" but if you mean, for example, linking to a message overview page, i.e. (URL) to a specific range of articles, i.e. (URL) putting up a copy of a weekly digest received by e-mail, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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