NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 13 Mar 1998 (#1998-182)
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1. CORRECT> RESOUR> Net-Newsletters
2. RESOUR> Yellow Badges - armbands and yellow Stars of David
3. SOFT> LinkScan 4.0 - Checks for broken links & Creates site maps
4. MISC> Western History Association website
5. RESOUR> Highest, Lowest, and Deepest Points
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:27:03 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: CORRECT> RESOUR> Net-Newsletters
This is for a change in website address:
As some of you know, I also moderate another list called Net-Newsletters.
Net-Newsletters now has a website at:
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/net-news/index.html
The following is from the Net-Newsletters website:
Net-Newsletters is a service of the Internet Scout Project in the Computer
Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The
Net-Newsletter service has been provided to the Internet community by Gleason
Sackman since May, 1994, and is an off-shoot of Internet Scout's very popular
Net-happenings mailing list and Web site, also produced by Mr. Sackman since
May 1993.
The goal of Net-Newsletters is to combine in one place the best of the
Internet's regularly published e-zines, allowing users to read or browse all
or none of them from the same mailing list or Web site. Users who want to keep
current on various aspects of Internet development and technology can choose
to subscribe to the mailing list, which sends two or more newsletters together
in digest format, or to browse the new Web site for today's postings or
archives of past postings.
Each posting contains identifiers telling the user which newsletters are
contained in that posting. A listing of each identifier with the name of the
publication it refers to is included below. Browse the archive of past
postings for newsletters which may fit your needs.
Please feel free to send comments, kudos, and suggestions to the editor of
Net-Newsletters, Gleason Sackman, at gle...@rrnet.com, or to the director of
the Internet Scout Project, Susan Calcari, at sc...@cs.wisc.edu.
These are the current newsletters being posted:
ALA> American Library Association
BENTON> Communications-related Headlines
EDUCOM> Educom Update
EDUPAGE> Summary Of News About Information Technology
DAILY> Daily News Brief
DUMMY> Dummies Daily - The Internet
INFOBEAT> News - Morning and Afternoon Coffee Edition
INSIDER> Seidman's Online Insider
KLEINMAN> The Kleinman Report
LEEBOW> Leebow's Friday Letter
NETANN> Net Announce Newsletter
PBS> PBS Previews
PICKS> Weekend Web Picks
QT> Quick Training Tips
RPTCRD> Update On America's Education Reform Efforts
SCOUT> Scout Report
USA> USA Ed.Net Briefs
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 14:43:46 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> Yellow Badges - armbands and yellow Stars of David
Date: Friday, March 13, 1998 1:20 PM
From: holocau...@miningco.com
This week's feature at The Mining Company's Holocaust site is a comprehensive
history of the armbands and yellow Stars of David which have been used to
identify Jews from the ninth century to the Holocaust and World War II.
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 14:43:56 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: SOFT> LinkScan 4.0 - Checks for broken links & Creates site maps
From: Ken Churilla <k...@elsop.com>
Date: Friday, March 13, 1998 2:08 PM
Elsop Introduces LinkScan 4.0 with LinkScan/Dispatch
Breakthrough in Central Management of Mulitple Websites
San Jose, CA, March 10, 1998 - Electronic Software Publishing Corp.
(Elsop) introduces a number of new features to enhance the central
management of multiple intranet/internet websites in organizations
where many different individuals may be responsible for the content.
These developments build upon earlier releases which laid down
the foundations for these exciting new features. LinkScan enables
users to split-up very large sites into smaller sub-sites, to produce
different reports for different departments and to configure LinkScan
to handle multiple domains hosted on a single server. LinkScan/Dispatch
adds a new higher level of capability to those features.
LinkScan/Dispatch is included with LinkScan Version 4.0. It is designed
for operators of large websites where the responsibility for
maintenance and updates is distributed among many individuals.
It offers the:
ability to define an "Owner" for each document in a website
ability to create Per-Owner LinkScan error reports
ability to send those reports to the respective owners via E-Mail
The LinkScan/Dispatch facilities now enable senior management
to monitor and manage the maintenance of documents and sites which
are the responsibility of different webmasters and other individuals
within their organization from a central location.
Other New features in LinkScan 4.0
Added the Indexoptions directive and the ability for LinkScan to
create virtual pages based on a directory listing if no default page
exists in that directory. The Indexoptions directive controls the
bahavior of LinkScan when it finds a reference to a directory that
does not contain a valid index page. If Indexoptions is set to
on (0), LinkScan will report a "No_Default_Page_Found" error. If
Indexoptions is set to off (1), LinkScan will automatically generate
a "virtual page" based on a directory listing and follow the links
accordingly. The default is to create the "virtual page".
Added the Statuscode directive and the ability to customize the
severity of any or all LinkScan Error and Status Codes For example,
one might want to downgrade all 301 status codes (Moved Permanently)
from "Errors" to "Warnings" and all Orphaned Files from "Warnings"
to "Advisories". The user can now establish the priorities of the
maintenance of his site by changing the severity status of links
on his reports.
LinkScan is being used by such large and diverse organizations as
Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, the
University of Cambridge (UK), the United States Department of
Defense, the Vancouver Public Library (Canada), the California
Institute of Technology, Australia's Commonwealth Department of
the Environment, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwest
Airlines, Brown University, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, The MITRE Corporation, the Ford Motor Company, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Walgreens Pharmacy, the
Boeing Company, Rueters, Business Week, and Molecular Simulations Inc.
Elsop's studies show that most websites have major problems. These
include up to 30% of the external links being broken along with missing
files and orphaned pages. Why? Because it's just too time consuming and
difficult to quality assure a large website manually and other programs
have been too slow and cumbersome to use.
The solution is to use a powerful automatic link validator to test
every link on your website. LinkScan is the answer. It is the most
thorough and fastest quality assurance tool available for this task.
LinkScan is essential to a professionally managed web site. It's also
easy to use because it sets up all directories and permissions and
builds your configuration file automatically. Most first time users
have LinkScan installed and running in minutes.
Designed to work on both internet and intranet servers, LinkScan can
test over 40,000 links per hour because it is the only link checker
that uses multi-threaded simultaneous processing. Linkscan has
successfully worked on websites with over 250,000 pages and more than
50,000 external links making it the pre-eminent tool for intranets.
LinkScan also produces two revolutionary types of maps of websites.
LinkScan's SiteMap enables the user to produce a site map that
includes every link on a website arranged in a hierarchical format
that resembles a book's table of contents. LinkScan's TapMap is an
expandable and collapsible site map that allows viewers to tap down
through the various and multiple levels of a website to quickly and
easily navigate and explore the website by tapping on a few control icons.
The message to Webmasters is: Don't get caught with your links down.
Don't let your visitors think your site sucks! You can now identify
and fix those problems today. Free fully functional evaluation copies
of LinkScan 4.0 may be downloaded (less than 200 Kbytes) from the
company's website at:
http://www.elsop.com/linkscan/
LinkScan 4.0 is priced at $750 per server. Volume discounts are
available in single order quantities of five copies or more. Orders
may be placed online via a secure server. Visa, MasterCard, and
American Express cards are accepted in addition to payment by
check or money order.
Kenneth R. Churilla
President
Electronic Software Publishing Corporation
http://www.elsop.com/
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 14:44:16 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> Western History Association website
Date: Friday, March 13, 1998 2:36 PM
From: w...@unm.edu
The Western History Association website offers membership and prize
information, as well as links to other sites of interest to historians of the
American West.
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 14:44:05 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> Highest, Lowest, and Deepest Points
Date: Friday, March 13, 1998 2:15 PM
From: geograp...@miningco.com
http://geography.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa030998.htm
A reference listing of the highest, lowest, and deepest points on each
continent and in the oceans.
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