Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:47:15 -0800
From: Tom Messmer <messmer-AT-endpage.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: archives


Steve,
If you or anyone else has stuff sitting around that isn't on my server, 
please feel free to send it to me. I can then do two things: put it up 
on the server, and burn it to cdrom in case something happens to my 
server.  Also, If people want cdroms of these archives you can email me 
offline and I'll burn you a copy for maybe the cost of postage. If all 
the stuff is redundantly copied it ought to survive. 

I've also tossed the idea around of reformatting all this stuff so that 
it is more uniform in appearance, right now its cobbled together from 
300 websides and so there are many broken links, styles, etc which 
makes it distracting and often irritating. Problem is that this would 
be a long tedious process and I'm not sure I want to tackle it, I 
started and realized that it will involved formatting them by hand, 
file by file...
Tom

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 21:05:53 +1100, Steve Wright wrote:
> The return of Tom's archive (yay) makes me think of an issue that Harry
> raised sometime last year - namely, what (if any) efforts are being made
> to preserve the many outpourings from left libertarian circles that have
> appeared on the Internet over the past decade or so.
> 
> I know that over the years many of us have built up our own private
> collections of such files on hard drives and other media, along with
> publicly accessible collections like Tom's and (before that) the Spunk
> archive. But is anyone systematically seeking to collect this stuff?
> 
> It's an important issue for a number of reasons: apart from the fate of
> geocities (where many of us had our earliest sites in the mid 1990s), even
> websites that aren't on commercially owned servers frequently revamp
> themselves, removing older files/pages in the process.
> 
> To take one example: an earlier version of the Radio Sherwood website, as
> a webzine Sherwood Tribune, is now nowhere to be found online (or at
> least, so far as I can ascertain).
> 
> I'm not sure if others want to talk about how to address such matters as
> an autopsy list thread - although I'd want to argue that access to such
> material can be a useful part of the circulation of struggles, so it's not
> entirely off topic. But if such a thread doesn't take off here, and you'd
> like to bounce around some ideas about how to tackle this, feel free to
> drop me a line offlist.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
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