From: tuna@KANCHENJUNGA.LCS.MIT.EDU (Kirk 'UhOh' Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.disc
Subject: disc-golf-courses database call for information
Summary: please contribute!
Date: 14 Sep 92 23:32:11 GMT
Reply-To: Kirk Johnson <tuna@lcs.mit.edu>
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology


WHAT'S ALL THIS, THEN?

  This is a call for information about disc golf courses throughout
  the world. Responses will be collected into a disc-golf-courses
  database (just a big text file, actually) which will initially be
  made available on the rec.sport.disc anonymous FTP archive which
  Gary Lewandowski has so excellently made available (more later
  about how to obtain the database once it becomes available).

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE!

  If you'd like to contribute info about a disc golf course that you
  know about, here's the deal. Since we're trying to collect info in
  a relatively standard format, we've created an electronic form of
  sorts for you to fill out:

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                   DISC-GOLF-COURSES DATABASE
                     INFO CONTRIBUTION FORM

NAME          __________________________________________________
COUNTRY       __________________________________________________
REGION        __________________________________________________
CITY          __________________________________________________
DIRECTIONS    __________________________________________________
              __________________________________________________
              __________________________________________________
COMMENTS      __________________________________________________
              __________________________________________________
              __________________________________________________
CONTACTS      __________________________________________________

Do you want your name and contact
information included in the
disc-golf-courses database?             YES _____       NO _____

  After filling this out, please return via e-mail to the
  database maintainer (Kirk Johnson <tuna@lcs.mit.edu>).

                            Thanks!

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  To contribute information about a course, simply "fill out" this
  form and return it to me via e-mail. A brief explanation of what we
  expect the various fields to be used for:

  NAME - The name of the course. If you can't find out what the
    official or commonly used name for the course is (ask other
    players!), make up something reasonable sounding.

  COUNTRY - The country in which the course is located.

  REGION - The region of the country in which the course is located.

  CITY - The city and state (or province/territory, as appropriate)
    in which the course is located.

  DIRECTIONS - How to find the course in the given city. Street
    addresses are best, when available; if a street address isn't
    available, try to provide relatively careful directions on how to
    get there (starting from some easy-to-find to find location such
    as a major highway intersection or a well-known local landmark).

  COMMENTS - Additional comments about the fields, including things
    like number of holes, official points-of-contact if they exist
    (e.g. a city parks and recreation department), how well marked
    the field is, baskets/no-baskets, and so on.

  CONTACTS - Your name and e-mail address (and phone number, if you
    would like). Note that our initial intent is to include this
    information in the disc-golf-courses database. If you *DON'T*
    want your contact information included in the database, *PLEASE*
    indicate this fact by checking the NO field at the bottom of the
    form!

  Note that while the prototypical form shown above has a fixed
  number of lines for each field, you should feel free to use more if
  necessary, especially for the LOCATION and COMMENTS fields.

OBTAINING THE DISC-GOLF-COURSES DATABASE

  Once we finish compiling the disc-golf-courses database, it will be
  made available via anonymous ftp with the rest of the
  rec.sport.disc archive on ftp.cs.wisc.edu in /pub/ultimate.
  Contact your local system wizards for more information about
  anonymous ftp.

  Those without direct internet access can use the "ftpmail" facility
  provided by the friendly folks at DEC's Western Research Lab (and
  kudos to them for providing said service). To use the ftpmail
  facility, send an e-mail message to "ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com" with a
  set of ftpmail commands; any files or directory listings you
  request will be returned to you by e-mail. Send an e-mail message
  with nothing but "help" in the body to find out what ftpmail
  commands are available.

PERSONAE DRAMATIS

  Gary Lewandowski <gary@cs.wisc.edu> made this all possible by
  finding space for the rec.sport.disc archive and suggesting the
  idea of a disc-golf-courses database (after being prodded by Scott
  Reeve).

  Kirk Johnson <tuna@lcs.mit.edu> has volunteered to solicit for
  information and serve as the first disc-golf-courses database
  maintainer.

  Hopefully hundreds (nay, thousands!) of disc golfers the world over
  will make the disc-golf-courses database a raging success by
  contributing info about courses far and wide!

Questions and suggestions for improvements are welcome and should be
sent to Kirk Johnson <tuna@lcs.mit.edu>.
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