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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: re: Electronic Activism, Part II, first half.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.183755.24131@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:37:55 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 08:26:53 PDT
- From: Griff Wigley <gwigley@igc.apc.org>
-
- Ok Harel I'll take a look at this and get back to you.
-
- Griff
-
- Good to see you're back...
-
- By the way I realized that in my excitement in adding in a
- section about "democracy through informaion access" at the last
- minute, I left out the short note about "active footenotes" that's to
- be included in the section explaining about the Automatic Archiver.
-
- Regards,
-
- Harel
-
-
- Along with more straightforward applications, one novel use of the
- Automatic Archiver is in what might be called "active footnotes"
-
- "Active footnotes" meaning you can instantly look them up. For
- example, by the time we had Noam Chomsky's article _The Victors, Part
- II_ from Z magazine, we already had online an Amnesty International
- report about the killing of street-children in Brazil that Chomsky
- refers to in the article, as well as the _Excelsior_ article with the
- estimate of 100,000 children dying each year from air pollution in
- Mexico City. So in our online version of _The Victors: II_ there are
- side-notes next to these points in the text giving brief instructions
- to readers on how to have the Automatic Archiver email them those
- documents Chomsky refers to. Surely this idea suggests many
- possibilities for innovative uses.
-
- [\footnote:
- Send the 1-line email message consisting of
- GET CHOMSKY VICTORS2 ACTIV-L
- to: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET or LISTSERV@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU
- for a copy of the article]
-
- [another footnote earlier on will give the general GET command format:
-
- ======================================
- To get a file named FILE NAME from the
- archiver (files are two words separa-
- ted by a space), send the 1-line message
-
- GET FILE NAME ACTIV-L
-
- to: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET
- [or: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU]
- ======================================
-
- Use GET with the file ACTIV-L ARCHIVE for a listing of
- files available with the GET command.
-
- e.g., send GET ACTIV-L ARCHIVE ACTIV-L to LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET to be
- emailed the index of archived files.
-