If you're in a hurry, skip to the request at the end. Good news! The travesty that was my first attempt at a new web site for ClassicCmp.org has only a few days' worth of life still left in it. We've been long overdue a web site that doesn't (completely) suck, and I intend to provide one as soon as possible. I am finished with college and have become comfortable with my new job, so I now have adequate time to make ClassicCmp a better tool for its members and for the world's classic computer enthusiasts in general. The first stage will be a small set of static documents which will provide a *consistent* view of the site's current content: mailing list info, mail archives, and the FAQ. There will be no mention of anything under construction. Documents will be simple, nearly text-only, XHTML-compliant, and lynx-compliant. Expect this to be up soon. I have written the first half of the spam-defense mechanism we discussed several weeks ago. This half isn't the CGI program I talked about, but instead the processor that replaces email addresses in an HTML document with links to that CGI program. Due to popular demand, the email address info encoded in the links is encrypted by two iterations of DES. I am currently investigating human-verification methods to be used in the CGI program. Expect the archives to be spam-proofed soon. Thanks to Tothwolf the packrat, the missing months of the old list archives have been recovered. Expect them to be up soon, as soon as I decide whether to keep Pipermail or switch to Hypermail (what we used to use) for message archiving. I'm leaning toward Hypermail. Once these things are done and a decent web site is in place, I will look at developing a much more complex, second-stage site, with a file archive, link database, and some degree of dynamicity via PHP or similar. If you have a suggestion, please let me know via private email. By the way, we now have exactly 720 subscribers. I would also like to hear (private email please) from subscribers with comments for or against the current two-list system. Defense of the system is welcome, as are ideas for better ways of doing it. Is it necessary? Should we go back to one list? Should we have more than two lists? Something else? I want _your_ opinion! -- Jeffrey Sharp ClassicCmp List Admin (during Jay's extended break)