Re: Tuning and Mills archives

HI there,

I haven't forgotten about these in case anyone wondered.

Here's an archive of the last 2100 posts

http://members.tripod.com/~tuning_archive/html/index.html

For now, I've done all the pages with meta tags telling
the search engines not to index them. However, maybe
we should make them indexable given the recent discussion
about that - quite a few spoke in favour of that, and
no-one voiced any concerns the other way.

Brought Gene to the group! :-).

What do people think?

The html archives for the yahoo groups is pretty much
working now, I think the bugs are fixed, at least,
all the ones I know about and have come across so
far, if I haven't introduced new ones while fixing them.

The Mills archive still needs a little more work
- that is a separate kind of thing as the posts need
to be extracted from files rather than downloaded
from a web site. I think not that much left to do,
may be a few hard to avoid glitches in the final result
but it will be usable anyway.

The complete archive is going to be in the region
of 200 Mb of html, so far too large for the 50 Mb
available on a tripod site.

Compressed into zips it may be okay, more like
20-30 Mb size, so I'm thinking of uploading it as
several zips at 4 Mb or so each, which have to all
be downloaded and then extracted into the same folder
to make the archive. That's more feasible, similar
in size to a couple of large mp3s.

Hopefully that would leave space on the tripod site
for an archive of the last couple of thousand posts
or so, with the zips of the complete archive maybe
linked from the title page.

Robert

--- In tuning@y..., "Robert Walker" <robertwalker@n...> wrote:

/tuning/topicId_30146.html#30146

> HI there,
>
> I haven't forgotten about these in case anyone wondered.
>
> Here's an archive of the last 2100 posts
>
> http://members.tripod.com/~tuning_archive/html/index.html
>

Thanks so much, Robert, for all your great work on this. This will
be a valuable resource for many people, I am sure.

> For now, I've done all the pages with meta tags telling
> the search engines not to index them. However, maybe
> we should make them indexable given the recent discussion
> about that - quite a few spoke in favour of that, and
> no-one voiced any concerns the other way.
>
> Brought Gene to the group! :-).
>
> What do people think?
>

Well, I've noticed Tuning List posts in search engines too. It
certainly doesn't bother *me* any. I think everybody knows that what
is said over the Internet is pretty much *public* information,
anyway, and, in fact, most people know that that situation even
pertains to "private" e-mail in the hands of even moderately inept
hackers...

> The Mills archive still needs a little more work
> - that is a separate kind of thing as the posts need
> to be extracted from files rather than downloaded
> from a web site. I think not that much left to do,
> may be a few hard to avoid glitches in the final result
> but it will be usable anyway.
>
> The complete archive is going to be in the region
> of 200 Mb of html, so far too large for the 50 Mb
> available on a tripod site.
>
> Compressed into zips it may be okay, more like
> 20-30 Mb size, so I'm thinking of uploading it as
> several zips at 4 Mb or so each, which have to all
> be downloaded and then extracted into the same folder
> to make the archive. That's more feasible, similar
> in size to a couple of large mp3s.
>
> Hopefully that would leave space on the tripod site
> for an archive of the last couple of thousand posts
> or so, with the zips of the complete archive maybe
> linked from the title page.
>
> Robert

That sounds like a *perfect* solution to me. It will be fun to
browse through those *old* Mills posts to see how people have changed
over the years... Personally, I think I've learned something in the
two years on this list, although that opinion may not be unanimous.

Thanks again!

Joseph