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Mission Statement I have my own servers which I could have put up the WWW site on, but I didn't for reasons of privacy - yours and mine. I chose to use geocities because it's free, offers plenty of disk space, and I do not get to see anyone's private information, like I would with my own server. As others have stated, it's trivial to sign up for a hotmail account, which will provide you with an anonymous e-mail address. It is not my intention to make the WWW site into a personal soapbox for myself, I merely offer it as a means to augment the C-SPAN community experience. I've frequently asked for submissions, and I don't and won't discriminate against any of them, no matter who they're from or what their contents. I do reserve the simple right to convert it to HTML with any formatting that entails - maybe even add some pictures. I wouldn't make any such document public without the approval of the author. I also reserve the right to add links from the HTML document to others on the site, or others on the Web, which is just common sense, and in no way editorial. I've refrained from posting any text found on this WWW site, out of respect for the posters' ultimate wishes. I'm willing to donate my time at doing this, and I ask nothing in return. I don't have any expectation of making any money from the site, and I would rather it be a collaborative effort among any of you who wish to participate. The key things I think the site can contribute are: 1) a repository for opinions, positions, or policy proposals that are too long to fit in posts here, or that you don't want to have to go back through 10,000 messages to find. 2) the ability to do polls or opinion surveys (though not scientific) 3) a scrapbook of news articles and WWW pages that you can always reference, even if the origin site(s) purge the articles, go out of business, whatever. 4) reference materials. Like the constitution, communist manifesto, etc. I've got a lot of such stuff that I'll be adding, including the federalist papers, Tom Paine's "Common Sense", and e-books versions of writings of about 30 political economists (including Smith, Keynes, Mill, etc.). 5) A place to archive pictures or graphics. For example, I have a graphic of the "sea of red" from election 2000 and a graphic explaining the confusing ballot. |