We requested that volunteers step forward to help us in this endeavor. We had an excellent response, (Jim Carter for 6th Co., Chuck Calvano for 8th Co., Steve Coester for 18th, Peter Browne for 19th, etc.), as displayed in this table currently under our Site Statistics page. A better look at what this might become has been devised by our Hostmaster under our new USNA63 Companies page.
For our volunteers: Each of you gets
a 'generic' Co. Webmaster e-mail address, such as:
WM18@wm.USNA63.org
Additionally, you can design and use a unique
Company Webmaster’s USNA63 ‘Alias e-mail address’ of your own design, as
implemented by the Hostmaster.
Examples:
There are two generic addresses, Co??@wm.USNA63.org and Wm??@wm.USNA63.org that simply forward to the CWM. They're case insensitive and if the company number cited in ?? doesn't exist, they get a polite bounce message suggesting the acceptable syntax. Those are the passive components.
The active components entail three preset
addresses:
Mail??@wm.USNA63.org
For the CWM to send to his company
Show??@wm.USNA63.org
For the CWM to get a copy of his address list
Load??@wm.USNA63.org
For the CWM to submit a replacement address list
The rationale is this. Keep it simple. The CWM remembers three addresses, Mail, Show, and Load and his company number to maintain his mailing list and send to it. The guys are likely to think they can mail to the company with Co??@wm.USNA63.org (maybe, modulo the wm subdomain) and they can, but their mail gets forwarded to the CWM. When they click on the guidon they send to Wm??@wm.USNA63.org. The CWM forwards what he wishes to Mail??@wm.USNA63.org.
Naturally I want to hear of any and all anomalies. When we've wrung this out amongst each other I will coordinate with WM to make the long threatened Company Webmaster Kit. - BK (24 Feb. 2000)
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Perhaps later on a Company Webmaster might want to create a Company Page within our site. Please understand this is not a requirement of the position, but know that the resources (all volunteer, like plebe labor) of your Class site stand by to help you if you would like to design or create such a page. We have an example available for you to examine that Steve Coester, our Poster Boy for Company Webmasters, has contrived for 18th Company. |
We have filled most of the positions within a network of Class of 1963 "Company Webmasters" to serve as a conduit of information among ourselves, as displayed in a table currently under our Site Statistics page. A better look at what this might become has been devised by our Hostmaster under our new USNA63 Companies page. We have this page posted for more information on the Company Webmaster suggestions and perqs.
The pictures available from a Reunion lend
themselves to such a display. Pictures and images on Web sites can
take a while to load and view, but we can use a thumbnail (miniature photo,
like the icons at the very bottom of this page) approach like the Whalen
Gallery for others. Our early feedback from Evaluation Forms
completed on the site indicated a fair number of respondents wanted to
be able to click from a thumbnail to the full size image.
Frequently
Asked Questions:
Q: How do my companymates know that
I am now their Co. Webmaster?
A: As your Company Webmaster, you
have the honor of announcing this to
your companymates -
they won't know that until you tell them
(unless they have visited the
site Statistics page, or the Companies page,
or your Company homepage,
all of which list you as the Co. Webmaster).
Q: What should I tell them?
A: Hopefully, you can tell them about
how easy it was for you to summit
a current bio page for yourself - so one
possibility is for you to send
a message to the mail address we have set
up for all of your Company
with known e-mail addresses [MAIL??@wm.USNA63.org
where ?? represents
your 2-digit Co. number, e.g., 07 or 22],
introduce the concept,
encourage them to add in their own current-bios,
and perhaps even
provide you with their ideas on what they
might like to appear on your
Co. Page. Let me know if you would
like to have a 'sample' first
message.
Q: I tried to use the MAIL address,
and it bounced back - what
happened?
A: It should work, but errors will
occur if you type in an error... the
two that have happened the most are leaving
out the 'wm' part of the
address, or sending it to '@wm.USNA63.com'
instead of '@wm.USNA63.org'.
As a non-profit entity, we're set up as
an dot-org site, not a dot-com
[which is why we are all-volunteer!].
Q: I know I can get our Co. grad names;
is there somewhere I can obtain
the list of all the guys that started with
us in July 1959?
A: Well, the Alumni register lists
both grads and non-grads for Class
of 1963, but does not provide the Co. number.
That listing can most
easily be obtained from the 1960 edition
of the Lucky Bag. In the back
(pages 550-599 or so] each of our plebe
year companies are pictured,
with our fourth class pictures. Not
too large, but underneath it does
list all of our members at that time.
Of course, anyone who left
between 7 July and whenever the picture
was taken (November?) won't
appear, but this gives you a good start
at the 'total' roster we are
hoping you can work toward.
Q: What kind of limit do we have on
pictures going onto my Company home
page?
A: Right now, no limit! Just
provide the pictures, either scanned into
files, or hardcopy, and we'll get them into
some sort of Company album
.. we are suggesting that perhaps your companymates
could submit some
company photos from the 35th reunion; any
individual photos could be
added to the individual's current bio page,
which links from the Lucky
Bag page and also connects to your company
page.
Although the reason for the Company Webmasters is not to develop additional classmates with Webmaster skills, I'll have to admit I have been extremely impressed with what Steve Coester has done and is doing with his 18th Co. page - if I drop off this mortal coil, I know the site will be in good shape ... but we may need to freeze-dry our Hostmaster Bill Kennedy, or maybe clone him once or twice .. Bill has responded to my suggestion as follows:
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If you are thinking about volunteering to be a Company Webmaster but have some reservations or questions, please drop us an e-note. We're all volunteers, and perhaps you just want to try it out for awhile - we can work with that! Meanwhile, thanks for visiting and using your site - - Webmaster |
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