Hello Friends:
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Managing your listserv Parkinsn account has been made as easy as clicking a
button on the Parkinsn List Online. Almost anything you can do manually to
suspend, start, get digests and even quit the list is done for you. The
email to the listserv is addressed correctly and the proper words are
inserted at the correct place in the message. Additional functional help is
available by clicking on the word Subscription at the top of the page.
The Parkinsn List Online page is now refreshing every 7 minutes with the
new addition of the RealPlayer content. New messages that come in during
the song, are displayed on every refresh. Rod McKuen and Anita Kerr provide
the audio. The audio presentations such as the movements disorder talks on
the site will require the listener to install the free RealPlayer to be
able to hear them. The player at the bottom of the page has a volume
control and mute capability.
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I am back on the job after 9 months in Paradise. While I was gone I did
manage to keep Parkinsn List Online working after a couple of server glitches.
For those who do not know it, every message sent to the list is also
available online for viewing at the Parkinsn List Online address.
http://www.ionet.net/~jcott/parkmail/maillist.html
The last 50 messages sent to the list are displayed. Another page sorts the
message according to the subject line and the replies. This type of display
is called threading. A link is on the maillist page to switch to the thread
page. The thread page makes it easier to keep up on topics you are
interested in.
Search capability on the Parkinsn site has been enhanced. The features of
the Parkinsn List site includes the Parkinsn List Drug Database and its 140
drugs when used with Parkinson's medications can affect their performance,
The Parkinsn List Current Topics Page has over 100 articles, studies and
other information of interest to the Parkinsn community, The Parkinsn
Archive Treasures Page has talks by world class movement specialists and
links to the Algorithm for the Management of Parkinson's and the Indexed
Caregivers Manual.
The enhanced search capabilities now include context display of found
search terms to help you decide which articles are closer to what you are
looking for. All 24,000 words found on the 340 pages of the Parkinsn site
are indexed.
The Parkinsn pages attract about 1,300 people a day looking at about 1,500
pages. The name Parkinsn is well know around the world.
Parkinsn rather than Parkinson was selected for the list name because the
first listserv software used the convention that list names could be no
longer than 8 characters...thus the o was dropped and Parkinsn was born.
Parkinsn has always been an international list and a blessing to many.
While a bulk of the list members have always been from the US, the list was
born in Canada and has been faithfully delivered by the servers at the
University of Toronto. Even through lean funding years, the University of
Toronto has stuck with us. We all owe them a debt of gratitude as well to
our founder and list owner, Barbara Patterson.
In the international spirit of the list, Parkinsn Online has "crude"
translations of list messages and other pages into languages more
comfortable to our international visitors, courtesy of Alta Vista. It's not
unusual for me to see German, Italian, Spanish, or French translations
requested when I review the logs.
For those interested in seeing a bit of Paradise, double clicking on the
rotating cube will take you to my adventure pages where you can see A Trip
to Beyound. The pages are never ending but for that matter I am also..:)
Thank you to those who have encouraged me over the years of my
participation in this great circle of friends, who agree to disagree.
Civility does break out here from time to time.
[log in to unmask] Search the parkinsn archive online at:
http://james.parkinsons.org.uk
Catch the Parkinsn's List Online messages at:
http://www.ionet.net/~jcott/parkmail/maillist.html
Click the navigation ads and use the new search tools
John Cottingham
