Greetings,
My newly registered domain "Exclave.info" is now active.
Here are my plans for that site:
a. It will be non-commercial, non-profit. (But I'm contemplating
letting people associated with the site who have maps, stamps, coins,
books, etc., to buy and sell to post wanted-to-buy and for sale notices,
but there will be no email spam, distribution of email addresses beyond
what is already permitted in the BoundaryPoint discussion group
b. I intend for it to be a storehouse of information about (mainly
international level) exclaves and enclaves, current and past. I have no
problem about expanding coverage to include international border
oddities and curiosities. It will be affiliated with the set of library
websites known as the "World Wide Web Virtual Library - WWWVL"), through
the Scool of Asian Studies of the University of Australia at Canberra.
I have another similar site associated with the WWWVL (bhutan.org) which
has operated for three years (and is currently being completely
redesigned).
c. To reach information that may be on-site about an exclave, you
will be able to go through the menu page at
http://exclave.info or
directly to the "sub-home page" of that exclave by typing, for example,
http://exclave.info/switzerland or
http://exclave.info/italy or
http://exclave.info/campione
d. OPEN OFFER. I invite anyone here at BoundaryPoint who would like
to have an email address "
yourname@..." to let me know by email
to
lnadybal@.... I'll set up an "alias" on the system, so that
when you use your new exclave.info email address, messages will come
into the server (which is in Canada), and be immediately rerouted to
whatever "real" email address you tell me you want to have your messages
forwarded. They don't come to me, and I couldn't/wouldn't read them.
If you want a "real" email account on the site, so that, instead of the
server forwarding your messages, it will save them until you retrieve
them off the server from anywhere in the world you happen to be, I'll
make that available, too (although it'll take me a day or two more to
set that up). The only limit I have is that what's stored on the server
(attachments, etc., you may be sending to one another), can't total more
than 10MB at any one time. If you are expecting a big file, you need to
promptly retrieve it, so that the server can delete it once it is
delivered and free up space for your future messages.
e. I'll start mounting files on the site in the next week or so.
There is nothing there as of Saturday, 8 December, but a few test items
will be there by Sunday. Some files will require you have Adobe Acrobat
reader (which you can get free of charge by downloading it off of
http://www.adobe.com
f. If you have information you'd like to have me add to the
library, contributions will be most welcome. So will suggestiohs on how
I can make this site the most useful for the most of us interested in
this rather esoteric area. My email address is
lnadybal@....
Thanks
Len Nadybal
Washington DC USA