archive archive archive (was: Tom G.'s site down - anyone know why?)

[Paul Perry]

At 12:16 AM 5/08/98 GMT, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
  But due to
>the fact that people change things on their sites, I am reluctant to
>archive, but rather I had a link on my FatMan site to his FatMan
>pages. 

Mate! this is crazy......
the fact that people change their sites (including the rather radical
step of closing them) means that you HAVE to archive anything you might want in
the future.

People say the internet is the worlds biggest library.
Well, I think it's more like a periodicals stack, and half the
fucker burns down every week.

paul perry, library of alexandria, melbourne australia