🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Bill Ricker wrote:

> >   Typed it up while researching it.  I noted that there were no copies of it
> > on the net when searching for it; so I figured I'd change that.  :)
> >   Its there in our root directory but I have no pointers to it at this time
> > because our situation doesn't really fall into it.
>
> If you don't link to it, the search engines still can't find your
> copy either!

  We were researching it, had a pointer to it for a little while, decided it
did not apply to us, and so, therefore, we removed the link to it because we
did not want people thinking that we were under its influence.  Make sense?

  In a time before your name graced this e-mail list a year ago (maybe it
was there but just not as active as today), I'd made the same annoucement,
advising people that it was there in our fileshell but just not pointed to.

  You're witnessing the SECOND announcement a year later.  :)

> >   I sent same copies to ARRL for use at thier own web site (since they
> > did not already have copies up for some reason), but they didn't seem
> > interested in it at the time.  (Go figure.)  Whether they did use it later I
> > don't know.
>
> All six of the ARRL's national MOUs are now online. The SKYWARN MOU
> is at http://www.arrl.org/field/mou/weather.html ; a general summary
> of what MoU's are good for is up a directory.  The ARRL HQ has done
> a good job recently in playing catch-up getting resources onto the
> WWW that used to be only dead-tree-ware or packet/POTS BBS, although
> there's still a lot of good stuff WWW-accessible only via FTP directories
> (both Hiram and BARC/Oakland).

  Yes, they've been getting better, lately.  A year ago, though, they didn't
have one of them up.

  Speaking of "wares"...any programmers in this list?  If I created a HELP
file (the easiest way I can think of to best describe my program idea),
would someone be able to actually create the program?  Basically my idea is
a quick-click SKYWARN spotter/event logging/tracking program, probably best
for Windows with all the mouse point/click/pull-down/button reset actions
that I'm thinking of.

> Much of the useful stuff -- unless
> you're a contester -- is obviously enough in the /field/ directory
> tree, since that's where ARES, tech consultants, local government
> liasons, and the rest of the real-world outreach is done.
> I forget how I found the MOUs, probably found them linked from
> someone else's emergency plan, maybe just rumaging in /field/
> but now they're linked in our draft plan (which when approved will
> be on the web too).

  I think I remember somebody at one of the SKYWARN sites had like a sloppy
incomplete draft copy but I was unable to remember the URL, and could not
find it in any of the search engines (I should say EASILY anyway).  Went
through what must have been 50 pages of vaguely SKYWARN-related pointers in
Yahoo and AltaVista, etc., and gave up realizing it was going to be a
daunting task finding it again.  So, I just wrote the ARRL and had them send
me a copy.

Todd

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