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From: Alex McLintock
Subject: [grubstreet] Re: Welcome to the "grubstreet" mailing list
Date: 19:27 on 07 Dec 2002
Just joined the Grubstreet mailing list and I hope to contribute a lot.

I may not have explained to everyone but I am the current editor of Project 
Galactic Guide which was set up some 12 years ago as (I think) the first 
internet version of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. 
http://www.galactic-guide.com/

we also use a wiki - and am encouraging its use instead of the previous 
article format which was ugly and difficult to use.

We almost predated the WWW - and the first versions of the guide were 
available by ftp only !!!

I have written a few London articles and these have been some of the most 
popular in the Guide.

Since you probably haven't read the "Welcome Message" in a while, here it 
is... and my responses....



At 18:19 07/12/02, you wrote:
>* discussion of existing and proposed content

I've added various Grub street articles on places I know about -


>* discussion of the structure of the guide, including organisation,
>indexing and searching


The only thing I have to suggest is to modify the basic usemod URL style

cgi-bin/wiki.pl?something

to being path orientated....

grubstreet/London%20Underground

The idea is to make it easier for web crawlers to index the whole site.



>* discussion of the software used to host the guide, including
>proposed patches or migration to different software

I like the search box usually found on the top left. It is much better than 
my installation




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