Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-17 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019, ben wrote: Well with me I have been finding with many searches, the modern browsers refuse to display sites for "what they figure is unsafe" yet the porn ads still show. I can find it, but not view it. I use current versions of Firefox and Chrome/Chromium, and I don't

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> Then imagine that a law is passed in a far away land, and the site owner > decides it's is too risky to bother with, and they then take the entire > site down - wiki and fora - with no warning and no access to the material... Gosh, Steven, I can't imagine for the *life of me* what site you're

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-16 Thread dwight via cctalk
From: cctalk on behalf of Seth J. Morabito via cctalk Sent: Friday, August 16, 2019 8:31 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question Paul Koning via cctalk writes: > Anything worth hav

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-16 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 02:21:36AM -0400, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: [...] > Yeah, I added "CHWiki" to the text on the Main Page to make it a > little easier Because of curiosity, I tried. On gog: === chwiki - because gog discovers I type from Poland and "chwiki" looks like Polish word

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-16 Thread ben via cctalk
On 8/16/2019 1:50 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, Noel Chiappa wrote: An additional issue, I think, is that Google is deprecating sites that use HTTP, versus HTTPS. I can't comment more, lest I start ranting at the utter Not true, in contrary, Google even crawls

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-16 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Steven M Jones > imagine that a law is passed in a far away land, and the site owner > decides it's is too risky to bother with, and they then take the entire > site down - wiki and fora - with no warning and no access to the > material... > .. > I would

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-16 Thread Seth J. Morabito via cctalk
Paul Koning via cctalk writes: > Anything worth having around deserves backup. Which makes me wonder > -- how is Wikipedia backed up? I guess it has a fork, which isn't > quite the same thing. I know Bitsavers is replicated in a number of > places. And one argument in favor of GIT is that

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-16 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 08/16/2019 02:50 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, Noel Chiappa wrote: An additional issue, I think, is that Google is deprecating sites that use HTTP, versus HTTPS. I can't comment more, lest I start ranting at the utter Not true, in contrary, Google even crawls

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-16 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Aug 16, 2019, at 6:14 AM, Steven M Jones via cctalk > wrote: > > On 08/15/2019 23:21, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: >> I have on several occasions posted appeals to this list for people to >> contribute content to it, and gotten almost no response (with one notable >> exception), in

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-16 Thread Steven M Jones via cctalk
On 08/15/2019 23:21, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: I have on several occasions posted appeals to this list for people to contribute content to it, and gotten almost no response (with one notable exception), in terms of added content; that was a large part of why I merely mentioned it in an

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-16 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, Noel Chiappa wrote: An additional issue, I think, is that Google is deprecating sites that use HTTP, versus HTTPS. I can't comment more, lest I start ranting at the utter Not true, in contrary, Google even crawls through FTP sites :-) Christian

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-16 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Eric Christopherson >> Anyway, the whole 'how do we find the info' is a part of why I started >> working on CHWiki, once I discovered it > Psst: it would've been a good idea to share the URL to CHWiki. Well, that passing reference wasn't an attempt to get people to go

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-15 Thread Eric Christopherson via cctalk
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 7:38 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > Anyway, the whole 'how do we find the info' is a part of why I started > working on CHWiki, once I discovered it - in addition to the usual > advantages > of wikis (good for collaboration, good for adding stuff incrementally), it >

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-15 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Seth J. Morabito >> having stuff scattered across a zillion personal pages (be they blogs, >> or whatever) is going to make it hard to find the useful one when >> needed > The sheer vastness of content available, combined with a Google > monoculture, combined with

RE: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-15 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
people do not want the "clutter". -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of ben via cctalk Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2019 6:57 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question On 8/15/2019 4:33

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-15 Thread ben via cctalk
On 8/15/2019 4:33 PM, Marvin Johnston via cctalk wrote: Instead of the search engines working to improve AI, they should be putting more effort into ESP. However with 'FREE' web hosting vanishing faster the Dodo, you have lost most of the Small sites that may of had the information. A blog

Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-15 Thread Marvin Johnston via cctalk
Al Kossow via cctalk writes: > On 8/14/19 8:53 AM, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: >> I hope this thread will be written to a blog post > > Buried in a filing cabinet in the basement with a sign that says > "Beware of Leopard". > > Blogs are a stupid way to archive information, almost as