bill.martens@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 14, 8:17 am, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:Toinet wrote:Just wondering. I've discovered plenty of interesting materials there... antoinehttp://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/images/other_archives/I've been contributing to it, mostly from the Vault mirrors collection, which currently is not publicly accessible. (As you may recall from a few months ago, when I was distributing a mirror of whatisthe2gs.) -- Mac GUI Vault - A source for retro Apple II and Macintosh computing.http://macgui.com/vault/Looks like someone took it upon themselves just to copy everyone's websites without asking the website owners again.
Kind of like how the wayback machine copies websites... Although I think I understand your desire for the courtesy of being asked, the web is actually all about copying. Every visit to a page gets a copy of that page, which can be saved. This isn't a case of putting up uncredited, fiddled mirrors. This is about putting up dated archives of credited sites. There can never be any confusion of these archives with the live, current site. Given the capricious way that web sites come and go, I can see the value in preserving multiple archives of the most useful sites. ...and courtesy is also a good thing. ;-) -michael NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."