From: joe@sfbooks.com
Please note followups.
Current status of the work: stalled halfway through data entry for
1993. (I've finished the last list Gene Spafford posted, but not the
last one he worked on.) I will probably have time to finish that
data entry late this week, and the 1993 post should be doable soon
thereafter; I hope to have time to do 1994 in the following week or
two, but at this point really can't be sure.
Important note: You will have to change your bookmarks. Starting
fairly soon, I will have to move my site away from postilion.org.
I'd been meaning to do so anyway, until the suggestion came that
part of the site was worth money; I thought it churlish to move
something people were helping pay my rent because of. Well, as it
turns out, I don't have a choice; a death has resulted in changes
to the postilion.org structure that include my site being kicked
out. For a time, there will probably be redirects in HTTP, but not
forever. I don't yet know which of two possible addresses I want to
use next; neither promises stability. *If* by some chance I ultimately
get a happy ending out of my current situation, I do expect to buy
ten years of a domain name, but until and unless I have that kind
of money to throw around, please expect the URL not to be stable.
This is, obviously, an argument with regard to one of the questions
below.
In article , I wrote:
> 1) Should I post the new materials - the year-summaries for 1987 to
> at least 1992, and perhaps as late as 1994 - here, or should I
> just put them on the Web?
So far, one person has posted a preference that I post them; nobody
has said anything either way by e-mail.
> The argument for confining them to the
> Web is that I catch some mistakes only when doing hierarchy-
> summaries,
> For what it's worth, I do think I've improved my error-checking
> considerably since I made the errors I caught when doing the
> previous bunch of hierarchy-summaries.
I should note that I've since rediscovered the particular feature of
Excel that makes one kind of error easier to catch when doing the
hierarchy summaries than otherwise; I do not expect to have time
to use that feature by October 14, the end of my present lease,
even if I much wanted to when I have no time to do full hierarchy-
summaries. Although I *have* improved my error-checking, I still
think the category of error in question (basically, being late in
catching particular changes in specific groups) is relatively likely
to occur in whatever I upload in October.
> 2) Are there any materials I should point out in the introduction,
> and try to get permission to put on the website, that I don't
> yet know about?
Nobody has yet commented on this either by e-mail or by public
posting, although I've asked in two different threads. I am
reluctantly concluding that I actually do know what's out there...
> Should anyone wish to make a donation, I cannot deal with PayPal at
> this time;
This is apparently *not* true now. The local public library has
reconfigured its internet-access setup, and much to my surprise,
PayPal is willing to talk with the computers there. So one reason
for this post is as a feeler: is there any point in my setting up
a PayPal account, or has everyone who wishes to donate already done
so via my postal address, which is still:
> Joe Bernstein
> General Delivery
> Madison, WI 53714
> USA
?
> I do mean the word "donation". No one user of this work is required
> or expected to pay anything for it; I do this work without expecting
> to *be* paid for it.
This remains true. But I am extremely grateful to the person whose
payment I've already received, and to others who have sent money in
thanks for different work of mine.
Joe Bernstein
--
Joe Bernstein, writer joe@sfbooks.com
At this address,
personal e-mail is welcome, though unsolicited bulk e-mail is unwelcome.
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