It is too early in the development of this new medium to find designers with thick portfolios of successful Web projects, so look at the rest of their work. Marketers who know how to market. Writers, art directors, illustrators who know how to communicate effectively. Then, ask enough questions to find out if they have a good understanding of the Net community. Don't expect an art director to understand HTML, and don't expect a programmer to understand the subtleties of marketing communications.
Successful marketing is a team effort by individuals with disparate talents.
There is no reason to expect the Internet to be any different in this respect. This is a fake email address. So many old members of this list were getting spam generated from siphons trolling the archives that I replaced all email addresses with randomly generated spam traps that forward mail to spam fighters. If you need to reach individuals mentioned in these archives, use a search engine to find their current location, as these addresses and archives date from 1994 to 1996.