ftp archives disappearing?

Al Kossow wrote: It's why I've mentioned a few times that I think some sort of mechanism to share "who has what" for the vintage community - tailored for our specific needs - would be nice. That way someone searching for content only needs to find a site participating in the scheme, and then it can use *its* search mechanism to find information. Rather than some process trying to guess what information makes up a page (as with Google), I'd see it more that people with participating sites would explicitly publish what they had available so share - at least giving control over what could appear in search results. Kind of like manx - but with the interface side distributable across multiple sites (plus I can never remember if the data for manx is driven by the "owners" of the content or by people entering info when they happen to stumble across something)