File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_1998/bhaskar.9805, message 2


Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 09:55:03 -0700
From: Matt Davies <jmdavies-AT-ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: BHA: Re: access to RTS


Hi Wallace,

Thaks for getting back to me with this. I suspected that the problem was
with the Spoons gopher server. Do you happen to know who at that server
should be informed? I'd be happy to write them myself.

Yours,
Matt Davies

Wallace Polsom wrote:
> 
> Hi Matt,
> 
> Sorry you haven't been able to access RTS via the Web page I set up, but the
> problem is not something I can fix. The pages that you saw when you accessed
> 
> http://www.raggedclaws.com/bhaskar/docs/rts/index.html
> 
> are hosted on my server while the individual sections of RTS itself are
> hosted on the Spoons gopher, which, unfortunately, does not appear to be
> working at the moment. The sections were all originally posted to this list
> and are in the BHASKAR list archive. My pages merely frame the sections,
> picking them out of that archive.
> 
> So why didn't I just copy the messages to my own server? Because it would
> have meant that I would have had to optain permission from the copyright
> holder. (In fact, I would love to see a copy of RTS on the Web in full
> HTML--not just as plain text, which is how the messages appear in the
> BHASKAR archive--but I doubt Roy and Verso would approve it.) Anyway, I
> thought that the Spoons server would be fairly reliable. I guess I was
> wrong.
> 
> Again, I'm very sorry you had difficulty, but it is beyond my control.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Wallace
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Davies <jmdavies-AT-ix.netcom.com>
> To: bhaskar-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU <bhaskar-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
> Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 9:48 AM
> Subject: BHA: access to RTS
> 
> Sorry to bother the list with this, but for some time I have been unable
> to access A Realist Theory of Science from the web site where it is
> hosted <http://www.raggedclaws.com/bhaskar/docs/rts/index.html>. I
> suppose I should go count my loose change and maybe just buy it, but it
> seems like if someone went to the trouble of getting most of the book
> into a readable format, we ought to be able to read it.
> 
> The specific problem I have is after the WSCR page loads, any time I
> click on a link to the text, the host never responds. Has anyone else
> had this problem? Is there someone in particular I should nofify?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt Davies
> 
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