Re: Who is creating asimov/images/other_archives?

["winston19842005@yahoo.com" <winston19842005@yahoo.com>]

On Dec 14, 12:42 am, "bill.mart...@gmail.com" <bill.mart...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Dec 14, 1:42 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
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> > bill.mart...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On Dec 14, 8:17 am, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
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> > >>Toinet wrote:
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> > >>>Just wondering. I've discovered plenty of interesting materials
> > >>>there...
> > >>>antoine
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> > >>>http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/images/other_archives/
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> > >>I've been contributing to it, mostly from the Vault mirrors collection,
> > >>which currently is not publicly accessible.
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> > >>(As you may recall from a few months ago, when I was distributing a mirror
> > >>of whatisthe2gs.)
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> > >>--
> > >>Mac GUI Vault - A source for retro Apple II and
> > >>Macintosh computing.http://macgui.com/vault/
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> > > Looks like someone took it upon themselves just to copy everyone's
> > > websites without asking the website owners again.
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> > Kind of like how the wayback machine copies websites...
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > Given the capricious way that web sites come and go, I can see the
> > value in preserving multiple archives of the most useful sites.
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> > ...and courtesy is also a good thing.  ;-)
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> > -michael
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> > NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing!
> > Home page:  http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/
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> > "The wastebasket is our most important design
> > tool--and it's seriously underused."
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> I find little value in it since our web sites have been up for 10
> years with a total of about 12 hours downtime over that time frame.
> Also, just because it is on the web, doesnt mean the websites are not
> copyrighted or that the website owners dont want their sites copied.
> Unfortunately, there are a few people out there who dont respect the
> work that others have put into these sites, which is one reason, I am
> reluctant these days to put out anything more.  Courtesy is a big
> thing and this kind of blatant copying just goes back to the way
> things were in the late 1990's when there was nothing but in fighting.- Hide quoted text -
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Maybe use something like:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/robots-exclusion-protocol.html
And hope others obey your wishes...