Newwords InfoServer Home Page

Quick Links:

• Newwords Computer Society home page at Warwick University
  • WebGosip Pages.
  • Schlaap file
  • WebGossip Discussion file
  • General Discussion file
• Infoseek query - this facility is currently in beta test, and does not yet automatically update the database.
• Information on the email interface
• Newwords mailing list information
• Current Newsletter (refreshed every month)
• Locally held home pages index
• The pictures archive index
• The mailing list archives, automatically maintained.
• Current news and events
• A selection of useful utilities for WWW people
• The beta test story generator thingy.

If you don't have forms support, this will not work. Use the email interface instead.

Here is the old version, in case you wanted to compare.

You can use this form, also, to add and modify existing records in the contacts database. To add a record, first use this search to check that it does not already exist.

Please note: this database is a copy of the master contacts database held on cheshire.demon.co.uk, and so is updated subsequently. Changes will take a number of days to filter through until I can automate the process.

If you can't locate the person you want using this database, you might want to try using the WhoWhere? search engine.

The same information can be obtained via email for people without forms support. To do this, send email to newwords-request@cheshire.demon.co.uk with a subject line of find keyword-list. For example, to find the information on Cheshire, use find cheshire. You can specifiy any number of keywords in the list.

To notify the list maintainer of changes, send email to newwords-admin@cheshire.demon.co.uk.

The maililng list is for ex-Warwick people to keep in touch. You can join the mailing list automatically by sending email to newwords-request@cheshire.demon.co.uk with a subject line of 'add' and remove yourself by using a subject line of 'drop'. Use a subject line of 'help' for more information.

You can send a message to everyone on the mailing list by emailing newwords@cheshire.demon.co.uk

News and Events

These are the events currently being arranged. Also, see the newsletter.

• FloYd and Rufus and Crackington Manor, the 1997 holiday page
• Crackington Manor 2 - the return (1998 holiday)
• FloYd and Rufus are getting married on 22nd August 1998!
• Steve (Cheshire) is going on a round-the-world escape trip for about 6 months, starting Jan 1998. Pre-leaving party 10/1/98.

Home Pages

This is a list of any personal home pages that I know of. I will try to install pages locally for members if requested (please keep it to a sensible size).

• James Beckett
• Philipp Hanes
• Harvey Thompson
• Mark Harrison
• Keith Turner
• Greg Orwin
• John Arnold
• Steve Shipway
• Add yours here?

Story and Gossip file

This section uses my (beta test) interactive story generator. You can use it to create a 'choose your own' story, or as a threaded gosip file if you have a good imagination. Try one of these:

• The General database
• The Prototype Newwords database
• The Prototype Gosip file database

These are now (thanks to Rince for beta testing!) in a stable condition. This is not a request for people to try and break it, though!

Utilities

This is a collection of C source code that may be of interest to people working with the WWW. Please give credit where it is due, and unless specified I (or my employers) retain copyright. Feel free to use anything you want, but not for profit.

• This is my interactive story creator. It is still in beta, but feel free to play with it. Please don't break it! If I can make it more robust, then I may post the source code here.
• A simple, small HTTP daemon. This is not originally written by me, but by a guy in France. However, I enhanced it substantially to include various features.
• A WWW proxy program written to work with SCO and AIX. Supports forms, but no real security. Works fairly well - we used it here for several months before moving on to the Cern HTTPD.
• A general proxy program that will proxy telnet and nntp, amongst others. With security to prevent the firewall being breached. This is handy for telnet access over a firewall, and can be limited to access only a specified host rather than prompting.
• A program to expand the QUERY_STRING argument passed to CGI scripts. This produces on stdout the necessary commands to set environment variables for the variables in the QUERY_STRING, including special characters, so it can be processed by eval.
• A wrapper program to restrict the use of services on your firewall machine.
• A really hoopy free Web Counter program by Muhammad Muquit. Comes in source code for most UNIX platforms, and has executables for NT even. Lots of features. Its the one I'm using here...

We have had visitors so far. Not many, is it? Makes you wonder why I bothered to add in this counter, except that it is sort of obligatory (or at least cliched) these days...