How to browse NEXT

Documents in general

NEXT uses the World-Wide Web (W3) with the express goal of conveying information in the most effective way using the least amount of system resources to do the job. There are two primary types of web pages: this primary web site, and user pages. User pages are explained more in detail below, but as a quick example of one, see Anton McClure's at /~asm/.

This document goes over some commonly asked questions about how this web server is structured, along with who you should contact regarding different potential issues you may face while browsing it.

Identifying page maintainers

The bottom of each page contains contact information for the person responsible for keeping said page up to date. In user web directories, this should be the user himself/herself rather than someone else. If you cannot get in contact with said maintainer, you may also contact the server's webmasters e-mail address at webmasters@next.gen.oh.us.

General comments, questions, and concerns should get sent to the general contact e-mail address at next@next.gen.oh.us. Legal requests, such as those with user pages or user conduct on this machine, should go to legal@next.gen.oh.us rather than an upstream service provider or domain registrar.

User web directories (userdirs)

NEXT is one of many machines that have offered its users the ability to manage web pages hosted directly on the machine. On NEXT, your files are stored in ~/w3/. Anyone would then be able to access the files you add to that directory over the global Internet at http://w3.next.gen.oh.us/~user/, where "user" is your NEXT username, regardless of what network the connection is coming from.

People and projects both are eligable for a user account, and in turn, a web space. For projects with multiple users that need direct write permissions, please notify the administrator so that that project's group permissions may be set as deemed necessary.

Contacting over user pages

To lower the number of e-mail forwards that the webmasters would need to do, please direct any comments, questions, concerns, complaints, or other related e-mail messages to the user in question. We ask that you give the users a considerate amount of time to read and reply to your e-mails, especially if your message requires thought or any amount of research to it. Adding "read receipt" requests to your e-mails is not a good way to measure whether our users actually read and/or understood your messages.

Anton McClure / asm@next.gen.oh.us