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To anyone seeking information about PD in the internet, I invite you to try my web site http://www.pdindex.org. As you will see, it's an attempt to present an extensive collection of links to other people's and organizations' web pages by the topics which the web pages contain, like the table of contents and index to a book. Because PD takes its toll on my time, energy and ability to concentrate, I'm looking for someone who would be interested in taking over the tasks of technical modernization of the site's software as well as keeping the information up to date and providing for the site's meager financial support. Otherwise I will have to abandon the site, as I'm becoming unable to keep it updated. The software is home grown, and consists of data files maintained in WordPerfect for DOS, programs written in the DOS language GAWK which convert (match, sort, format) the data files to web pages, and some DOS batch files that control the processing. Ideally the files should be put in an EXCEL or similar data base and the processing to create the web pages should be done with an up to date programming facility. You won't have to learn the old programs -- I will provide the processing algorithms. The financial support consists of paying the domain registration and the web hosting fees. The tasks could be split among several people, e.g., one to do the programming, one to locate new on-line data sources, and one to do the content indexing. I will be available for transitional support as required. Any takers? Phil Tompkins ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn