X-Message-Number: 2650 Newsgroups: sci.cryonics From: (Timothy Freeman) Subject: Re: About BPI Tech Brief 5 Message-ID: <> References: <> <> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 15:53:39 GMT Peter Merel <> writes: Many people use WWW browsers (Mosaic, viola, cello, ...) to read their news, and it will be a simple point and click for them to view your diagrams (and videos) directly from their newsreaders. Folks who are lumbered with dumb (non-X) terminals should still be able to get access to the text of your document using "lynx", a text only web browser, so I doubt that anyone would be disadvantaged by this arrangement. Using WWW conveniently requires a real-time network connection. This is the scarce resource. I agree with your assertion that people stuck with terminals could use lynx. For instance, Kevin Brown (the cryonics mailing list moderator), Alcor, and Mike Darwin presently use email-only connections that are not real-time, as far as I know. I once knew about a www-to-email gateway, but I can't find the pointer any more. If that gateway still exists, then it wouldn't be any harder for email people to fetch mosaic pages than it presently is for them to fetch old cryomsg's. If anyone wants to use the gateway, post on comp.infosystems.www to get someone to tell you how to access it. -- Tim Freeman <> [ FYI: During non-peak hours I can access Mosaic, but I don't know how to create HTML documents and I certainly don't expect to be able to set up a WWW server and post HTML references to it. (If I had that kind of capability I'd do some more obvious things first, such as setting up accounts named "cryonics", "cryonics-request", etc. rather than using "kqb".) What I can do to provide illustrations to go with the text is to store some uuencoded graphics files (PCX, GIF, etc.) that people can retrieve via CRYOMSG requests. I expect that a lot more people are able to view PCX or GIF files than are able to access WWW. - KQB ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2650