Hi Henry, >I wonder if the service should not be offered on floppy's also for all >the people who do not have a CD rom drive. What do you think?? That >would also be less costly for a low volume initially. >Sincerely , >Henry Guttentag ( [log in to unmask]) My initial thought about this was "Wow, that would be painful" - imagine copying all those disks. But I reckon the web sites will compress down onto 4 disks, which isn't too bad. Four delivery strategies are possible: - CD ROM - 4 Mac or PC Floppies, probably only containing the web sites compressed, so you'll need to know how to unzip stuff. - Mac formatted ZIP cartridge (PC possible?) - Compressed archive files available on my web/FTP site. This would be useful for people who had Internet access but didn't want to spend the time reading on line. Also useful for people who had a free Internet connection at work :-) The CD ROM will have the most on it because I can just put anything I get hold of on it. There is an arguement for *only* distributing CDs to get the volume up (and hence price down). But I don't think that applies in this case - the idea is to get the information out as widely as possible. At the moment finding a web browser is the biggest issue. But even if I did manage to find one to "supply" on the CD ROM, I probably wouldn't be able to offer it with the other methods. Incidently, the info. will have a copyright along the lines of: "Copy electonically, pass it on to your friends etc., as much as you want, just don't change it or claim it as your own". It'll be a little more fluent than that (!) and there may be exceptions (need to talk to copyright holders in more detail), but the basic point is to distribute the info. as widely as possible. We are after all working against the same disease...... This means if you think of a better distribution strategy, go ahead and do it. I'd do what I can to help make this easier for you, in terms of supplying regular updates etc. You can also use this mechanism to pass on the info. to your friends, which is probably more efficient than you all ordering stuff from this side of the Atlantic. What I bring to the party is: - the knowledge to get Web sites onto local disks (and still have them work!). - a leased line to the Internet which means I don't have to worry about the cost of downloading stuff. - various tools to help make all this easier. Distributing physical stuff is not something I will ever be terribly good at because that needs volume and geographical proximity. So any alternatives are gratefully accepted! What would really make my day is for some established organisation to offer to take on the commercial side of the enterprise. Simon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simon J. Coles | "Far better it is to dare mighty things, Senior Systems Analyst | to win glorious triumphs, even though New Information Paradigms | checkered by failure, than to take rank http://www.nipltd.com/ | with those poor spirits who neither enjoy EMail: | much nor suffer much, because they live [log in to unmask] | in the gray twilight that knows not victory | or defeat." Tel. (Work) +44 1344 778783 | -Teddy Roosevelt