Regarding publishing on the net, I'm surprised no one has mentioned
the World Wide Web, so here's my 2 cents worth.

When you put information on a Web page, anyone can look at it any
time. It's almost like a book in a library, except it's never checked
out. And, since your document is hypermedia, you can include photos,
maps, sounds, hyper links to other documents, etc. Also, unlike paper
publishing, your document is always as current as the last time you
edited it.

If it's on the Web, people will read it. Yesterday, I read about a
page that was accessed 11,000 times in the past three days!

Getting your own web browser is not as hard as it use to be. I use
Mosaic and Netscape from home, using freeware, and a little shareware,
for just $8 a month.

Of course, you need access to a web server to publish on the web. I
don't know if UPS or UW have web servers. If they don't already, they
probably will soon.

I really don't know much about web publishing, having published only
two modest web pages myself, but I am amazed by it's potential.
There's already some birding information on the web, but we need more.

Merry Christmas all, and good birding!

Randy Deardorff / Barb Smith
Seattle, USA
curlew at eskimo.com