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- About the webmaster: This site is maintained by me,
Steve Ewing, a 16-year Navy veteran who served as a Quartermaster
in the Submarine Service, finishing as a QM1(SS). You can find
my personal web site at:
http://www.qmss.com/~sewing.
This has many useful links, and my bio is also on it, in painful
detail.
- About the domain: I have the domains qmss.com, qmss.net,
and qmss.org registered to me. The .net and .org domains point to
the .com domain. I intend to keep these domains for the forseeable
future: they are not going anywhere.
- About email: I control the email for the domains (see
the hardware note below). I run my own mail server, and can create
POP email and personal web accounts (similar to my own) for anyone
interested; alternatively, I can set up an alias, which allows you
to use a "qmss.com" address, while the mail actually gets
delivered to your real mailbox with your own ISP. I would charge
a small fee for this, but haven't set anything yet, since no one
has been interested. Something on the order of $10 annually for
an alias, and a little more for a POP account/web page (since that
actually consumes resources on my server).
- About the web page: I control the content and design
of the web page. I try to maintain it in accordance with standard
Netiquitte. I gratefully accept submissions,
but reserve the right to edit them for style and content before
posting them (meaning mainly bad language and spelling).
I will link to sites I feel are of interest on the topics of
navigation, Navy, and sailing in general. I certainly authorize
anyone to link to this site. I don't feel that reciprocity is
required: because you link to me it is not necessary that I link
to you, and vice-versa.
I don't do ads, nor pop-ups, and try to keep the graphics to a small
size. The page is written using Arachnophila,
and often updated on the fly using vi. It is as lean and basic as
I can make it, while still making it look good.
- About the hardware: I maintain the web and mail server
on a PC running OpenBSD, using
Apache and sendmail. The connection to the Internet is full-time
via a DSL connection, with 128k upload and 384k download.
The web page may be subject to erratic outages as I play
with my server ;)
- Awards: QMSS.com is starting to garner some attention.
Let's hope it generates some content, too. I have set up an Awards Page. I don't plan to hand out my
own (what do I know?).
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