Consortium homepages

[Karen Campbell]

Sometime ago I posted a query about running a homepage for a consortium 
(no central server with access available to all).  Our dilemma is how to 
manage this in such a way that various members can maintain various 
pages, rather than the office staff having to do all the maintainance.  
We haven't reached a conclusion, but here is a brief summary of the 
responses I received.

Most people suggested using an anonymous ftp site to allow file 
exchange.  Several suggested allowing ftp or telnet contribution of files 
to a desktop server.  One of these suggested a Mac program called ftpd.  
Others suggested Windows httpdd v1.4c at http://www.city.net/win-httpd/ 
as a way to do some windows-based networking.  A very simple suggestion 
was just to link to locally maintained sites on each institution's web 
servers.  Forms with cgi-bin scripts were suggested.  Finally, a program 
called Marmot was suggested.  This is a client server product, running on 
all platforms, which is described as a "publishing protocol" 
(http://www.pn1.gov:2080/marmot).

If we reacha really elegant, or at least effective, solution, I'll post 
the details.


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Karen Campbell	                           Bush Memorial Library
kcampbel at seq.hamline.edu	           Hamline University
(612)641-2482			           St. Paul, Minnesota
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