> As the creator of the web archive I feel I should reply...
> On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Hans Franke wrote:
> > Me_Too(TM) don't feel comfortable with a _public_ archive of this
> If other people are of the same opinion then I will take down the web
> archives. I can always use the 170MB (and now growing at a rate of about
> 12MB a month) of disk space they take at the moment. Instead of cluttering
> the list send mail to me directly at kevan_at_heydon.org and I will count the
> votes.
What about puting the pages within a restricted area, and the
password is supplied with the acknowledge message of the lists
registration ? So it would be 'restricted' to people that have
the list also (or at least had it at one time). So the privacy
would be simmilar to the list itself.
> > list. I considere this more privat - and for the pe(a)rls in here,
> > I made up two archives (_on_my_hard_disk_) - one where every pice
> > is stored, and one where I put the very genuine things. So I have
> > any possible search option (fast and local) and privacy (i hope).
> I also tend to keep post that I think will be usefull (which happens to be
> most of Tony Duells posts) in a mail folder. I have also been keeping
> entire threads with a thought to extracting the pearls of wisdom into web
> pages.
> It is much less work to archive the entire list than it is to manually
> extract particular bits of information. It is also easy to let the major
> search engines trawl the list archive to allow searching.
What about set up your own search engine, just for the CC-pages ?
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Thu Feb 04 1999 - 06:32:50 GMT