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Re: [ECS] Archives for 1997 & 1998 Richard Yee Mon, 09 Nov 1998 21:54:10 -0800

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There's also a lot of debug info that's been sent to Mark through the
list (and some people would rather not have this info publicly
available).  Sometimes it's attachments (which are easy to remove), but
if it's part of the message, it can be missed.

Richard

Ingo Pakleppa wrote:
> 
> Why do you think removing e-mail addresses would be so bad? E-mail
> addresses from two years ago aren't necessarily valid any more to begin
> with. I, for one, changed e-mail addresses four times in the last two years.
> 
> If somebody really wants to contact the original sender, he could always
> send a broadcast to today's list. Either the person is still around and
> replies that way, or (s)he isn't, and then there is a good chance he either
> lost interest or changed e-mail address.
> 
> Ingo
> 
> At 06:18 PM 11/9/98 -0800, Richard Yee wrote:
> >There currently is a working HTML archive of all messages posted to the
> >new ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org (more than 1800 messages worth - updated
> >daily).  It's not publicly accessible yet for a number of reasons:
> >
> >1.  It has a search engine that would take down the entire server
> >    (might take it out or change it)
> >2.  It's a spammer's heaven (password protecting might do the trick,
> >    but removing the e-mail addresses wouldn't make the archive too
> >    helpful)
> >
> >Feedback welcome.
> >
> >Richard
> >mailto:richard@netbloc.com
> >
> >
> >Bill Walters wrote:
> >>
> >> All -
> >>
> >> Back from vacation and have gotten some of my projects done around the
> >> house.  Time to get back onto the ECS projects I'd like to see...
> >>
> >> 1.  Archive file for 1997 and 1998.  I've volunteered to do the
> >> "cleanup" work but need the source files.  Several had previously
> >> indicated they'd try to extract them to an ASCII file.  Any luck?  If
> >> so, please e-mail them directly to me or let me know where I can ftp
> >> 'em.
> >>
> >> 2.  ECS primer.   With all of Mark's work on ver 4.0, I believe that I
> >> need to "get into" it and figure out the windows stuff.  Perhaps two
> >> versions of the Primer, ECS and ECSD/ECST are now needed?  I don't know
> >> squat about the windows version and without good phone stuff, don't want
> >> to use it for running my home.  Will consider using it on my "main"
> >> computer (not the control) if I pick up an extra interface (CM-11A, or
> >> whatever).  Anyone got an extra CM-11A cheap they don't want?  (or
> >> anything else that ECS can use, I don't really care, just need it
> >> inexpensive)
> >>
> >> Comments?
> >>
> >> Bill Walters
> >>
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