TheSkepticalReview.com
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The Skeptical Review online - Welcome!
Description
Welcome! With a great deal of reluctance, I decided earlier this year to discontinue the paper version of The Skeptical Review with the last issue of 2002. I belong to the generation that prefers to read words on paper, but I realize that this attitude is rapidly changing. With time, I expect that even the TSR fans of my generation will become accustomed to the on-line version. I have no doubt that the new version will make my workload more manageable, because there will be no publishing deadlines. Articles will be posted when they are completed rather than at specific dates like January/February, March/April, etc., so the pressure of deadlines will be a thing of the past. The on-line version will also eliminate the clerical work involved in bookkeeping, updating address files, printing and affixing labels, sorting and bundling by zip codes, and such like.
The electronic version will also give me some badly needed assistance that wasn't possible with the paper version, because volunteers won't have to live in the same town or geographical area in order to help with the work that must be done. I live in Central Illinois, but the ones assisting me with the electronic version live in different parts of the country. Electronic communications make this possible, whereas a paper version would have required everyone working on the paper to live in the same general area. I had many subscribers write to say that they would like to help me. The offers were appreciated, but there wasn't much that volunteers in California or Florida or Arizona could do to help an editor in Illinois.
All that has changed with the electronic version. Three assistants, in particular, have already been invaluable to me in beginning the on-line version of TSR. Rob Miles is doing the html work and actual posting of the articles, which I send to him as e-mail attachments. Jim Java is working on a design for the site, which has not yet been completed, but he assures me that the maintenance of it will be simple. Jack Corbin is hosting theskepticalreview.com through his site, where he has maintained a complete archive for postings to the Errancy list.
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- J. Farrell Till
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