Advert on Rietveld & SDPD Mailing Lists 18 October 2000 School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London

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Subj: Powder Diffraction taught via the Web

         Advanced Certificate in Powder Diffraction on the Web 2000/2001

                     Web site: http://pd.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/pd/

This is a brief reminder that this powder diffraction course will soon be
starting its second year intake, with the final deadline for enrolment
being 29/11/00.

This course is delivered via the Internet and makes use of innovative
technologies for distance learning. The course is ideally suited
to 1st year PhD students new to solid-state chemistry/physics and
material science, as well as industrial powder diffraction users.

Please browse the above URL for further details.

The mail shot was also sent to the SDPD mailing list: sdpd@egroups.com

[Comment: Original message had an amusing date error (29/11/99), which was corrected in a subsequent email. This may have generated even more hits due to the discussion that resulted from it!]

Result

This message had a massive impact on the hits of the web site:

Date	General Hits		"ENROL.HTM" Hits
Sun 1 Oct	43		1
Mon 2 Oct	231		3
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...	etc.

Note that these totals include random hits by robots and other search engines (and excluding *.cryst.bbk.ac.uk).

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