30 Aug
2004
30 Aug
'04
8:05 p.m.
In message <Pine.LNX.4.33.0408301711540.21716-100000(a)siconic.com>
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote:
I share the sentiment but why the hell did archive.org
nuke the previous
web pages? That makes *no* sense. You might want to contact them and
bring it to their attention. It might've been a glitch. If it's an
actual practice then it needs to be adjusted.
Okay then. Go to <http://web.archive.org/*/www.leus.com> and pick the October
1st, 2000 archive entry. You'll get a "This site has moved to
www.libertyus.com" page. Now feed the URL "www.libertyus.com" to Wayback
(which should dump you at <http://web.archive.org/*/www.libertyus.com>". Not
the message - "Access to this site has been blocked by the site owner via
robots.txt."
Now open the ROBOTS.TXT Wayback has and <http://www.libertyus.com/robots.txt>
and compare them...
The juicy bit is at <http://www.archive.org/exclude.php>... Looks like
they've got Wayback rigged to destroy any historical data if the current site
owner decides to put up a robots.txt file that blocks IA/Wayback. I consider
this to be severely bugged, but %DEITY knows if they do. In any case, Liberty
Electronics seem to be no more and no-one seems to have taken a mirror of
their website either. And manuals for the terminals seem to be like hen's
teeth :-/
I've contacted the Internet Archive regarding this - %DEITY knows if I'll get
a reply.
Later.
--
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... Can I stop typing in taglines now please?