X-Message-Number: 18764 From: "John de Rivaz" <> Subject: Longevity Report 88 and new address for web site Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:48:11 -0000 Hi, I have just posted Longevity Report 88 - details follow below this new item. The facilities offered to the advertising sponsored users of the Yahoo Geocities web provider have been further reduced. [Do not confuse this with the Yahoo discussion groups, which are unaffected.] The 4MB/hr limit has been compounded by the removal of ftp facilities from April. Of course Yahoo are perfectly free to do this, just as we are perfectly free to move material to other sites. I hope all readers join with me in thanking Yahoo for the service they have provided in the past. I have therefore introduced a new web address for Longevity Report http://www.longevity-report http://longevity-report also works. The underlying web space is provided by Bolt Blue as proprietors of the old Cable and Wireless cwcom.net, and the domain by http://www.dnbuy.com The really good news is that the PicoSearch search engine works again - you can search for any word or words from the whole of Longevity Report. As far as I know this is the only newsletter at least partly concerning cryonics that has searchable web issues going back decades into the past. I have slightly changed the entry pages, allowing you to select issues by number and click on the latest issue without waiting for the whole contents page to download - something that some of you have asked for. The Yahoo site is still there, but anyone using it soon finds themselves on the Bolt Blue site as a result of frame forwarding of the contents page or if they use the search engine. This is to facilitate existing links to specific articles. There are facilities to switch back to the Yahoo site - these are provided because Yahoo regulations require that all pages on their sites are linked. However Yahoo may eventually remove all their free web space and at which time the site will be closed, and in any case I shall not be uploading new issues to Yahoo - the Bolt Blue site will be the definitive one from now on. If you run a web site that uses Longevity Report articles, I would be grateful if you could change all links from http://www.geocities.com/longevityrpt/<article> to http://www.longevity-report/<article> This way, should Bolt Blue have to be changed for something else, the links will still work - I can switch the entire system over from Bolt Blue to something else with just one alteration at the domain server. I have just posted Longevity Report 88 to both sites. http://www.longevity-report/lr88.htm Volume 14 no 88. First published March 2002. ISSN 0964-5659 Articles include: The Cryonics Summit and Proposed New Umbrella Organisation Ron Havelock Effect of Ascorbic Acid on Longevity In the Nematoda Caenorhabditis elegans Vladimir V. Bakaev, Lyudmila M. Bakaeva *** new *** The Peril of Unchallenged Authority Olaf Henny *** amended version of various web postings revised by the author for Longevity Report *** Fly Longevity Experiments 48-55 Douglas Skrecky There has been some criticism about the serialisation of these experiments, but I feel that they are interesting on the basis of showing people what can be done by an individual in what is otherwise very much a team-work area of science. Comments to the Longevity Report Yahoo Group are welcomed. As Others See us John Howard *** new *** From a "Small Press" critique service. Finally I would mention a new web site that I have started http://www.AlecHarleyReeves.com concerning the life and works of the inventor of PCM. It includes audio and text material from broadcasts and lectures, and some original material not previously published. -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz: http://www.deRivaz.com : http://www.AlecHarleyReeves.com http://www.longevity-report.com : http://www.autopsychoice.com : http://www.cryonics-europe.org http://www.porthtowan.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18764