Updates to "History of Life"

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This was originally posted to the Vert. Paleo. list but it seems to be of
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Norm MacLeod


>Date:         Wed, 25 Jan 1995 13:45:19 PST
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>From: Richard Cowen <cowen@jade.ucdavis.edu>
>Subject:      Updates to "History of Life"
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>UPDATES TO HISTORY OF LIFE
>
>I am setting up a system for irregular updates to my text,
>History of Life (Blackwell Science, 1994). I propose that it will
>work in two ways.
>
>First, updates would be posted on the World-Wide Web server at the
>Department of Geology at the University of California, Davis, for
>access by anyone with a "browser" program. Mosaic, Netscape, and
>Lynx are the three I am familiar with. Mosaic and Netscape work on
>several platforms, I believe, and Lynx is a very fast, efficient
>text-only browser on DEC machines like a VAX.
>
>How to do it:
>Set your browser program to open up the URL:
>http://www-geology.ucdavis.edu
>Open up the list of faculty to Richard Cowen
>Open up the list of my books
>You will find an "Updates" marker next to History of Life, 2nd edition
>
>The updates are arranged two ways: chronologically, as they were
>posted, so you will know which are new and which you've already seen;
>and by chapter, so you can go quickly to any topic that you are
>interested in.
>
>Once you have got into the files once, your browsing program allows
>you to insert your own electronic bookmark at a place you'd want to
>return to instantly, without going through the click-through-the-pages
>routine.
>
>Second, I realize that not everyone has a browse-capable computer,
>or finds it convenient to use the Web. For those folks, I can send
>out updates as they are completed, by normal E-mail. If that's what
>you prefer, please write me an E-mail letter asking me to do that.
>I won't send you the nit-picky updates-of-updates for typos and slight
>misphrasings, but you'll get each one as it is first posted.
>
>Eventually, I may be able to use the Web fully, posting drawings or
>diagrams that are either non-copyright or my own copyright, but that
>is a whole new skill that I haven't learned yet, and would take a
>whole new level of time commitment.
>
>Let me know if you find this useful!
>
>Richard Cowen
>rcowen@ucdavis.edu
>
>



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Norman MacLeod
Senior Research Fellow
N.MacLeod@nhm.ac.uk (Internet)
N.MacLeod@uk.ac.nhm (Janet)

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