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Re: year 2000 in is web hierarchy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Fizz)
Wed Apr 29 11:25:08 1998
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 98 11:24:43 EDT
In-Reply-To: <9804231842.AA25333@MIT.EDU>
To: Karen Fortoul <FORTOUL@mitvma.mit.edu>, eyanow@MIT.EDU
From: Robyn Fizz <fizz@MIT.EDU>
Cc: is-home@MIT.EDU
In the IS Web page hierarchy, there is now a Year 2000 Compliance link on
the Help page (see the Finding an Answer section).
NewsLink has an item about your project on the front page (where it will
stay for a few days) and under IS Highlights (where it will stay for at
least a few weeks).
After talking with Suzana, we've decided not to create a Spotlight on the
IS main page. The feeling is that:
* NewsLink handles IS-related "hot news" items.
* The IS page will not get nearly as many hits as the MIT home page, so
that a Spotlight is likely to be less effective there and could add
slightly to a feeling of clutter.
* The Spotlight could cause occasional "political" problems (Suzana's
experience with the Spotlight on the MIT home page) and would also increase
the maintenance factor for the pages.
We may revisit the idea of a Spotlight at some point in the future --
perhaps after we compile usage statistics for the IS pages -- but for now
we're going to stick with posts to NewsLink.
Please let us know if you have any comments about where we've put the Y2K
link in the IS Web page hierarchy.
Regards,
Robyn
>Hi -
>
>We are about to release updated MITY2K web pages on the Year 2000
>problem. We'll be appearing in the mit spoltight next Wed. (4/29). In
>preparation for that we'd like to be worked into the IS web page
>heirarchy. Suzana said you were the person to talk to. We're trying to
>increase the publicity so there should probably be links from more than
>one place and preferably from second level pages so it's easy to find.
>What are the next steps? Also, to coincide with the spotlight (and a
>Tech Talk article also on 4/29) could we have a news piece in newslink
>about the revised pages?
>
>Thanks for your help and let me know what I need to do.
>- Karen -
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