3 Feb
1999
3 Feb
'99
3:42 a.m.
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(a)heydon.org and I will count the
votes.
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.
--
Kevan
Collector of old computers: http://www.heydon.org/kevan/collection/