Some initial research into software that will support WWW conversation
pages was done, and is available on the
ASI web site, but no further work
has yet been done in this area.
February 1996
No progress to report this month.
March 1996
No progress to report this month.
April 1996
Randall Severy has done some additional research into available tools
to support web conversation pages. Despite the lack of an integrated
mailing-list interface, HyperNews seems to be the best candidate for our
needs and appears to be the most popular non-commercial solution currently
available on the web. The actual implementation of this capability is
currently waiting for the ASI domain move.
May 1996
No progress to report this month.
June 1996
Brad Ackerman started researching potential tools for implementing Web
conversation pages and decided on the HyperNews system from NCSA. Brad is
now waiting for the upcoming move of the asi.org domain to begin installing
and configuring the web conversation environment.