HW: web "ring" proposal

[M Holmes]

Frank Weil writes:

On this. There's a Web site called Webring which will maintain all the
links for you in a way that when someone joins or leaves then only they
need to do anything. A search on "Webring" would probably nail it.

I saw one for Civilization and it seemed pretty good. It's certainly a
lot less pain than trying to follow lots of broken links.

FoFP

> For all the people out there in boc-l land who have Hawkwind related
> web pages, I have a proposal.  I have seen "rings" created for topics,
> where each main page links to the site "before" it and "after" it in
> the ring.  This way, if someone wants to browse everything about a
> topic, they can circle around the ring without having to deal with
> arbitrary links on people's pages.
>
> For the Hawkwind pages, for example, if the ring is
>         (official page) <-> (Sonique's page) <->
>         (Golden Void page) <-> (Calvert page) <->
>         [wrap back to official page]
> then the official page would point forward to Sonique's page and
> backwards to the Calvert page, Sonique's page would point forward to
> the Golden Void page and backwards to the official page, etc.  (Don't
> read anything into who I used in the example above, I just chose the
> first few that came to mind.)
>
> This would require:
>         (1) Volunteers to be in the ring.  Please let me know if you
>             want to be part of this.
>         (2) An agreed-to initial ring order (which doesn't really
>             matter that much since the ring has no start).  I'm open
>             to suggestions here.
>         (3) Some sort of format for the links.  I can take a stab at
>             this if there is interest.
>         (4) An agreement that each site in the ring occasionally check
>             to make sure that its two links are still functioning so
>             that the ring isn't broken.
>         (5) Some idea of where we add new ring entries.  I am open to
>             suggestions here, too.
>
> Comments?  Suggestions?  Large quantities of unmarked bills?
>
> Frank
>
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