Accessing the PaleoNet Forum

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>Norm wrote:
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>>Whitey's editorial, as well as Doug Erwin's and Garry Jones' previous
>>PaleoNet Forum pieces, can be accessed from the PaleoNet Pages Home Page...
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>>http://www.nhm.ac.uk/paleonet/Index.Html
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>>Norm MacLeod
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>        I need help.  I am new at this, and am having trouble.  I can get to
>the home page, but I can't find the forum.  Perhaps I don't recognize what
>it is I am looking for.
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>        Can someone give me explicit directions on what to do once I get
>to the home page?
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Just in case anyone else out there is having the same problem let me take
this opportunity to provide the explicit directions to everyone. In order
to access the PaleoNet Forum (or indeed any part of the PaleoNet Pages)
you're going to have to get a web browser. There are lots of these
available and almost all of them are freeware at the present time. Try to
use Netscape if you can. The PaleoNet Pages are developed to be compatible
with Netscape since it seems to be the most popular browser at the moment.
After starting the browser up type the following address into the address
window:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/paleonet/Index.Html

If you're having trouble with access to the Pages try to cut the address
out of this document and paste it into the browser window. The address must
be typed in EXACTLY as I have given it. This should take you to the
PaleoNet Pages Home Page and from there on things get much easier.

If you have successfully made contact with the Home Page scroll down until
you find the heading "Electronic Journal" (Hint: it's right beside the red
ball). Below that heading are the words "The PaleoNet Forum" This is a hot
link to the Forum Page. Click once anywhere on top of those words and your
browser will take you to the PaleoNet Forum. That's all there is to it. For
users who want to go directly to the Forum Page (Do not pass Go. Do not
collect $100) the address is

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/paleonet/Forum/vol1no3/Hagadorn.Html

At the bottom of the current Forum Page is a hot link that provides access
to the two previous Forum articles.

The PaleoNet Forum is intended as a place for paleontologists to experiment
with the medium of electronic communications as well as providing topical
commentary on the field of paleontology itself. I'm always looking for new
contributors to the Forum so if you would like to place an article there
all you need to do is get in touch with me. There seem to be several
discussions going on PaleoNet right now and all of them would make
excellent topics for Forum editorials. I believe that electronic media like
the Forum are going to play a much wider role in paleontology's future than
traditional print media and this is a place where we can all explore and
shape this avenue of paleontological expression together.


Norm MacLeod



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Norman MacLeod
Senior Scientific Officer
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N.MacLeod@uk.ac.nhm (Janet)

Address: Dept. of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum,
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