Infomeister Archive has moved

[Max Pyziur]

At 06:06 PM 6/17/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear SEELANGers,

A small note, if I may interject ...

>The Infomeister Gopher server, home of a very rich collection of Slavic
>materials, has moved. Please modify your URLs to point to replace:

This is true ...

>        gopher://infomeister.osc.edu:74/11/

This is almost true ...

>with:
>
>        ftp://www.ccl.net/pub/central_eastern_europe/


This is kinda, sorta true...

>The rest of the URLs should still be valid.
>
>I have no official connection to this site, and noticed the change only
>when I discovered that my own links were no longer valid. Sigh.

Happens.

But to make it very true it's important to let you know where the Ukrainian
contents of Infomeister went.

Once upon a time, there was a street in St. Louis, MO (the point of
origination/birth/neuroses for people like Redd Foxx, Vincent Price, Shelly
Winters, Tennessee Williams and myself, among others).  It is an
interesting, funky, kinda run down street.  In the hopes of giving it new
character (and to drive up property values) and attempt to lay a big guilt
trip on the local Black community they named it after a slain civil rights
leader.  However, for a long time afterwords the street never quite lost
it's original name so not only in people's speech would you hear, but also
on billboards you would see:

"Dr. Martin-Luther-King-Blvd.-formerly-Easton-Avenue"

Farther along in time, for about ten years there was a musician/recording
star from Minneapolis/St. Paul who gave the world a body of some highly
eroticized (some make say overly sexed) dance music.  His fame, I suppose,
went to his head and he decided to change his name to something resembling
his ego.  However, he too still can't quite find himself to be rid of his
original stage name so you still hear DJ's on the radio say:

"The-Artist-formerly-known-as-Prince"

Comes now the replacement for the Ukrainian portion of Infomeister and here
there is a similar problem.  In attempting to design a bold, intriguing,
innovative, and memorable name to showcase the new website where the
contents have been moved, the new website can't quite (yet) become detached
from its original moorings (sp?) so you just might see and hear:

"BRAMA-the-website-formerly-known-as-Infomeister-Ukrainian"
           (on the web at www.brama.com)

To end this silly expose, it would be in order to raise a virtual/cyber
toast to the individual who was (and still is of some of the site's
progenitors) the very backbone of this whole Infomeister enterprise and that
is Jan Labanowski -- a man who can pack 25 hours into a 24 hour day, snore
in PERL, and contemplate and engage in creating the next generation of
protein molecules.

>Cheers,

Nazdorovlia,


>David

Dzenkuyu bardzo (sp?) / Diakuyu / Spasybi


Max
pyz at panix.com