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

[Magnus Danielson]

>>>>> "PP" == Paul Perry <pfperry at melbpc.org.au> writes:

Hi All!

First let me say that this tomg droping out of sigth isn't exactly
what I would like to see. He seems to be able to be a contributive
person. Has anyone tried to approach him and ask why it happend?
Hey Tom, come back!

 PP> At 12:16 AM 5/08/98 GMT, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
 PP>   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. 

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

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

The lack of conservatism in the positive sence is a wide spread
deseace in the web world. When I was chief editor of a website back in
94-95 we spent a lot of effort building the site so that we could drop
in things as we went along without the need to move other things. As
long as the disc was not full just leave it or maybe update it. Also,
doing stuff for a longer lifetime than a couple of weeks makes one
care more about design. These things is a lost knowledge with most
websites, commercial, private or otherwise. To put it bluntly, it's a
mess all over... (sigh). Also, most webdesigners should be forced to
use the website over a 2400 baud mode in order to prioritice the right
things, in a diffrent part in the world (of their desk) will available
bandwidth appoach such numbers and many websites becomes totally
useless due to their bandwidth hunger. It has allways been easier to
make a flashy webdesign than make a usefull one. I hope people
understand why I chose not to proceed to a carieer in the webdesign
world... 

Sorry for this of topicness, but once the subject was on... can
someone get those schematics back online?

 PP> paul perry, library of alexandria, melbourne australia

Paul, Alexandria is in Egypt, not Melbourne Australia...  :) ?

Cheers,
Magnus