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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: List Status: we've moved successfully...
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 May 18, 19:07 -0500
You wrote:
"one that that I haven't seen mentioned is getting a dump of the old
mailing list.
Even if it is a few GB of data I'm sure some of us would be happy to
store it. Multiple copies = data security.
So, is it possible?"
Absolutely (and it's only megabytes). Let me just invite everyone to relax
about archives. Yes, there will be one. In fact, there might easily be
several. And yes, there are now multiple copies. Dan Allen has maintained an
extensive archive, as a single file, that has already been copied by several list
members.
Instead of worrying WHETHER there will be an archive in addition to google's
self-archiving functionality (there will be), how about brain-storming a
little on what you would LIKE in an archive...? One feature that I think we need
(which other lists do not need) is the ability to display space-formatted
tables and multi-line equations correctly. How many times has a Navigation List
member sent a carefully formatted list of some sort or a calculation to the
list only to have all the spaces removed when it hits the archive?? It's
annoying, and it's a distinct disadvantage of the archive on i-DEADLINK-com.
The archive on i-DEADLINK-com has many holes in it. While I was working through
some old messages today, I came across one that had some Russian text in it. I
was curious to see how the old (i-DEADLINK-com) archive handled it. So I went to
1999 and clicked on April. There were 29 messages sent to this list in April,
1999. See if you can find them! :-)
Incidentally, back in 1999, this list was called the "Navigation Mailing
List", the posting address was navigationATronin.com, and each message was
pre-fixed with the tag [Nml], similar to the [NavList] tag we have now. Things do
change. Things have changed before.
One final thought: post about navigation. I say this not as a list manager,
but as a person with long, long experience in Internet discussion groups.
When people engage in meta-discussion and little else, the group quickly sours.
We're here to talk about navigation, right? So go to it... you know how. :-)
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 May 18, 19:07 -0500
You wrote:
"one that that I haven't seen mentioned is getting a dump of the old
mailing list.
Even if it is a few GB of data I'm sure some of us would be happy to
store it. Multiple copies = data security.
So, is it possible?"
Absolutely (and it's only megabytes). Let me just invite everyone to relax
about archives. Yes, there will be one. In fact, there might easily be
several. And yes, there are now multiple copies. Dan Allen has maintained an
extensive archive, as a single file, that has already been copied by several list
members.
Instead of worrying WHETHER there will be an archive in addition to google's
self-archiving functionality (there will be), how about brain-storming a
little on what you would LIKE in an archive...? One feature that I think we need
(which other lists do not need) is the ability to display space-formatted
tables and multi-line equations correctly. How many times has a Navigation List
member sent a carefully formatted list of some sort or a calculation to the
list only to have all the spaces removed when it hits the archive?? It's
annoying, and it's a distinct disadvantage of the archive on i-DEADLINK-com.
The archive on i-DEADLINK-com has many holes in it. While I was working through
some old messages today, I came across one that had some Russian text in it. I
was curious to see how the old (i-DEADLINK-com) archive handled it. So I went to
1999 and clicked on April. There were 29 messages sent to this list in April,
1999. See if you can find them! :-)
Incidentally, back in 1999, this list was called the "Navigation Mailing
List", the posting address was navigationATronin.com, and each message was
pre-fixed with the tag [Nml], similar to the [NavList] tag we have now. Things do
change. Things have changed before.
One final thought: post about navigation. I say this not as a list manager,
but as a person with long, long experience in Internet discussion groups.
When people engage in meta-discussion and little else, the group quickly sours.
We're here to talk about navigation, right? So go to it... you know how. :-)
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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