How to get a conference going:
1. login as sysop.
2. click on conference index
3. click on sysop functions to go
http://www.spring.com/yapp-bin/restricted/cfcreate
(it may be faster to bookmark this in netscape if you're creating a
lot of conferences)
4. fill in all the forms, choose either 8(normal) or 16(allows readonly)
as the conference type
5. AFter it's create, telnet
www.spring.com and join the conference
as a normal user (not sysop) and add the first topic which is usually
introductions and perhaps a few starter topics.
6. send the conference url to the search engines under several topic
keywords
7. email the most popular sites on the net in this topic area with the
url of the conference and an invitation to link to it from their site.
They can link directly to the conference itself. It's easy to copy and
paste this link from your location window in netscape. If the conference
allows readonly, this is the best link to use. In the link you provide
o use 'public' instead of 'restricted' in the url and do use 'all' if
there isn't much content in the topic yet.
for example:
http://www.spring.com/yapp-bin/public/read/sports/10
This takes you to item 10 in the sports conference as readonly and
then you can click the login or signup buttons.