How do I set up a HTTP page (assumming that httpd comes back up)
I already know html and a little bit about cgi but am wondering
about SOP for new (and unregistered) users.
It looks to me that your welcome page could use a little sprucing up tho'

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Hello, mib, welcome to Grex!  This probably should have gone
in the Help conferences, not the Helpers conference, but since I'm
a lynxadmin I can field these.

(A)  Yes, the Welcome pages do need sprucing.  Our webmaster is
working this out even as I type.  >8)

(B)  We don't have CGI support yet, though I'd certainly like to.

(C)  Any user on Grex may set up HTML pages here and have them
put on our list of users' home pages.  Since you seem to know HTML
already, I won't tell you to run mkhomepage, just set up whatever
you want and send mail to carl telling him where your main page
is.

(D)  httpd will be back up soon.  (It had better be, grrrrrrrrr...)

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We support CGI when we have an httpd daemon, but you have to clear it
with the me and carl. That's because the daemon's rule file is involved.

If I have a page on another system, is there a place here where it could
be listed and linked to? 

http://www.well.com/www/bubbles/

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Or you can send mail to carl, and he will probably see your
request even sooner than if you send it to webmaster.
(That's a guess.)

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Yes, but carl has asked that srw and I leave the pages alone,
and let him do all of the modifications.  So sending mail
to carl will probably get faster results.  Mebbe.  I dunno.

I just added Tom to the list of Grex users with homepages.

And I'm still in the process of updating the hypertext.  It's
more of a project than I had thought at first...

It always is.  >8)

what's the difference between webmaster and lynxadm?
(besides all webmasters are lynxadm's, but all lynxadm's aren't webmasters;)

carl is the webmaster, which means he's in charge.
Other than that, I'm not sure.  >8)

Carl and I are webmasters. This is primarily a mail alias like postmaster.
Anyone with questions about our web site can send them to webmaster
and know that a human will answer them.

Carl and Robh both wrote a lot of the html files we have on grex.
Lynxadm is a unix group (not a mail alias) which we created so that
these two and I could have write access to the area where the pages
are kept.

HTTP without an internet browser, is that possible from the VMS system
that I telnet to Grex from?  I'd kind of like to check out the "Red Green"
homepage.  The T.V. in the basement's busted so I can't watch the show. :_(

I know there's a mail-to-Web gateway out there - you mail them
a URL, they mail the page (including link addresses) back to
you.  Not the greatest for real-time browsing, but it should
work just fine on your system.  (Assuming you have e-mail.)
If nobody else knows the address(es), I'll go hunting for them.

Okay.  Tahnks what does that TLA "URL" stand for?  I'm not up on
internet-ese

URL = Universal Resource Locator
It's a standardized form of accessing anything on the Internet.

According to a recent edition of the internet by e-mail FAQ, sending
the message:

send <URL>

to agora@www.undp.org (where "<URL>" would of course be replaced with
the actual URL you want to see) should work.  Maybe.  Sometimes.

Cool.  I'll try that, right after I raid my medicine cabinet.

Agora?

Agora: A marketplace in ancient Greece, customarily used as a place
of popular assembly.

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