A quick and useful way to resolve this problem is to make all of your previous papers available. The problem is how. This section discusses an approach that will quickly and easily make your old papers available, and allow you to convert the documents to HTML format as time permits. Be sure to use the extension .ps so that the Web server and client will know how to treat the file. A good name for this directory is papers .
Most sites allow as a default indexing of directories.
You could at this point stop, since your papers would now be available. You could advertise this URL to interested people and if they have a postscript previewer, they could view the file online. If not, they could still save the file and print it on a postscript printer. If you have created a home page for yourself, you could easily add the following line to assist people in finding your papers. The ability to allow the Web server to index files for you is convenient, but unless your file names somehow convey the title of the paper, people are not likely to know which files are of interest to them.