Re: new conceptions about digest.net

[Joel <Zeitguy@xxxxxxxx>]

Richard,

I think it's a great idea, as my BMW pages are taking up space at my
business site.

Joel

> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:27:06 -0400
> From: Richard Welty
> Subject: administrivia: new conceptions about digest.net
>
> John Meister, who put me up to setting up the fsj, xj, and diesel-benz
> lists on digest.net, floated an idea past me the other day.
>
> it's not a new one, it's what off-road.com has sort of been up to.
> off-road.com hosts the precursors to the fsj and xj lists on this server
> (but that's a story for another day and time.) they also provide for some
> sense of "community" amongst their visitors/list members, etc. we have a
> lot of that, but the idea is to expand on it.
>
> the idea is to devote some web space to list member pages about their cars,
> or their car hobby, or their car related hobby. the ftp product i'm using
> permits ftp only accounts; web space can be allocated in small quantities
> (2-3Mbytes) on the request of a list member. the pages would fall in
> suitable locations under www.digest.net, for example,
>
> /bmw/fred-barney/
>
> for Fred Barney's bmw pages.
>
> i could also (and perhaps this would be better) set up
>
> http://members.digest.net/bmw/fred-barney/
>
> and group pages for list members that way.
>
> there are about 700Mbytes free on the /web partition right now; i have 2.6G
> "squirrelled away for later" which could be cleared out in short order if i
> wanted to make it available for this usage. these would be free pages (no
> email or shell account); the premise would be that on demonstration of a
> large and active community with good page impression rates, we might pull
> in some good advertising to help cover the costs of running the server.
>
> the pages would also be restricted in content to cars, obviously, and to
> reasonable taste.
>
> any thoughts from anyone on this?
>
> cheers,
>   richard
>


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