20 Mar
2007
20 Mar
'07
7 a.m.
At 06:44 PM 3/19/2007, Jim Leonard wrote:
Not once has anyone answered my question of
"hasn't anyone learned from the Don Maslin incident". I guess not.
I asked the question as to whether his archive has actually
hit the Dumpster or not.
At 06:56 PM 3/19/2007, Jim Leonard wrote:
John Foust wrote:
Mirroring usually involves some cooperation between the various hosts.
I think we agree that's "nice". The other distinctions get more nebulous,
don't they? Certainly the archiving community has benefited from
people who've squirreled away long-lost archives of old collections.
The way Google Groups benefited from 9-track archives of 80s Usenet
posts comes to mind.
- John
If I see a cool site, do you think it's OK for
me to recursively 'wget' just so I can leisurely browse my local copy
Yes.
and then toss away the bits I don't want?
No. The former is archiving/mirroring/backup. The latter is abuse. At no point
was >I advocating abuse.