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Feb. 25, 2002 Volume 7.08 In this Issue: Letter from the Editor :::::: Plus: *Legacy of Love and Pain *What's New at HoustonChronicle.com *How to Send Us Community Notices *How to Contact Us :::::: Letter from the Editor: We would like to think that all of our online readers visit HoustonChronicle.com every day. Rain or shine. Weekends and holidays, too. But we know that isn't the case. And we field a number of e-mails over the course of every week asking how to find articles that no longer are visible on the daily Web pages. The Web site, much like the paper, is a daily product. Each day, we present the current events of that day. And the next day, the events of that day. The daily links normally are functional for a couple of weeks, but they are visible on the site for only one day. So the challenge is how to find yesterday's links tomorrow if you fail to visit the Web site every single day. Obviously, we have at least something of a solution or we wouldn't be mentioning the problem. The best solution would be a search routine that just hunted through all of the functional links on the site. It's a long, involved tale why we don't have something like this on the site, but we don't -- although we do have it on our list of ongoing projects. In the absence of a search routine, we suggest subscribing to the daily HTML e-mail versions of the major news sections of the site -- page one, local and state, business and/or sports. Overnight each day, we e-mail out special HTML versions of these four Web pages complete with links to all of the stories appearing on the Web site as the day begins. If you have an e-mail account that can handle HTML e-mail (basic AOL cannot), you can get several advantages over browser-only customers. For starters, you get a daily update in your e-mail each morning to let you know what the major news of the day is. You can read over story summaries without having to open your browser. But if you do want to know more about an article, just click on it like it was a Web link and most mail clients will launch your browser for you and open the complete article. If you miss visiting the Web site for a few days, the e-mails will be waiting with the links no longer visible of the Web site itself. And if you keep the e-mails for a few days, you have your own short-term archive of Web links to find articles from the past couple of weeks. A few folks who do not have HTML capabilities in their normal e-mail accounts have set up accounts on free Web-based e-mail services like hotmail.com or eudoramail.com just to receive these e-mails each day. We have links atop each of the Web pages available by e-mail where you can sign up to have them delivered, or you can sort through all of our e-mail offerings at: http://www.HoustonChronicle.com/mail/manage.html Thanks for visiting, and please let us keep you informed of the news of the day. Mike Read Editor HoustonChronicle.com News mike@chron.com ::::: **Legacy of Love and Pain And in case you didn't visit the Web site yesterday, you missed a very special, though painful story that we think you probably wouldn't want to miss. Almost a year ago, Angela Hudson was tied up, doused with gasoline and set on fire in her own home. That she survived at all was little short of a miracle delivered through the quick bravery of two men who broke in past her assailant and extiguished the flames. Still she suffered horrendous burns over much of her upper body and face, and her survival was questionable for weeks after the attack. Out of this horrific incident, three generations of women in her family have had their lives changed forever. Statistic show that every 15 seconds somewhere in America a woman is beaten by a husband or boyfriend, and that every day four of them die. But statistics do not show the mental and physical terrors of such abuse. Chronicle reporter Daniel J. Vargas and photographer Andrew Innerarity have followed the family's struggles since the attack. Their story adds a human dimension to the statistics, and it's at: http://www.HoustonChronicle.com/legacy ::::: *What's New at HoustonChronicle.com **Time to Vote Doesn't it seem like we just finished an election? It was, after all, December when we finally determined who was going to be Houston's mayor for the next couple of years. Well, folks, it's time to vote again -- party primaries to select candidates for this year's November general elections. The official date of the party primaries is March 12, but early voting started Saturday and will continue for the next couple of weeks. We have updated the Political page to include the ongoing candidate recommendations from the Chronicle's Editorial Board and information about how and where to vote early. And we'll be adding a Voters Guide featuring all of the candidates and their positions on major issues next weekend. All to help you cast an informed vote. Check out the candidates at: http://www.HoustonChronicle.com/politics ::::: **Archives Access for Non-Subscribers For a couple of year now, the online archives of the Houston Chronicle and the Houston Post have been open to Houston Chronicle subscribers. Those of the Post are offline for some review right now. And HoustonChronicle.com has partnered with Qpass to provide an easy and safe way for non-subscribers to purchase access to archival material online. Three kinds of passes allow non-subscribers to search the archives. One is for 30 days, another for seven days, and a third lasts for 24 hours. To buy a pass and start a search, simply go to http://www.HoustonChronicle.com/archives That site also includes answers to any questions you might have about this new service. Please note that the Houston Chronicle archives includes only text of news articles appearing in the Chronicle starting in 1985. It does not include photographs, classified ads or paid death notices. As part of the SubscribersADVANTAGE program, the archives remain free to Houston Chronicle subscribers. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: *How to Send Community Notices to HoustonChronicle.com If you or your organization has a public service announcement or news about volunteer positions that you need filled, please send them via email to mailto:gwen.lewis@chron.com HoustonChronicle.com reserves the right to edit any notices. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: *How To Cancel Your Subscription to the Newsletter HoustonChronicle.com News is never sent unsolicited, but if you desire at any time to stop receiving the newsletter, please go to your mailing list management page: http://www.chron.com/mail/control.hts/97197771 or to be removed immediately go directly to: http://www.chron.com/mail/unsub.hts/8/97197771 If you don't have access to a web browser, you can send any email message to U-A8.10.97197771@chron-news.com and you will be automatically removed from the newsletter list. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: How to contact us: The HoustonChronicle.com World Wide Web site is located at http://www.HoustonChronicle.com/ The HoustonChronicle.com e-mailaddress is mailto:hci@chron.com The office phone number is (713) 220-2700. We are located at 801 Texas Ave., Houston, Texas 77002. Comments to the HoustonChronicle.com News editor may be directed to mailto:mike.read@chron.com or technical issues to the list manager at mailto:mike.read@chron.com *************************************************************
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