Re: HTML archive of PRNCYB-L list

Francis Heylighen (fheyligh@VNET3.VUB.AC.BE)
Mon, 17 Jul 1995 17:23:29 +0100


>Hopefully teethihng (sic!) troubles are now ironed out. The
>(provisional) PRNCYB-L html archive is at
>
>http://bruce.edmonds.name/PRNCYB-L
>
>and is indexed seperately by date, author, subject and thread.
>It was started from about 4th July 1995 but I think a few of the
>earlier messages (espec. from myself!) got mangled!

Bruce, I am impressed, and most grateful. This deserves an accolade! This
is something we have been speaking about for a long time, that it would be
nice to have to have a Webified archive of PRNCYB-discussions. The tools we
looked into (Cliff and me) either did not seem to work well, or seemed to
require a lot of work for installation, so we never got to it ourselves.

At the moment, we just have some selected discussions on FTP, in text only
format. Your HTML archive looks much nicer, especially with the different
indexing orders, adapted formatting of quotes, signatures, headers, etc.,
and the embedded links for URLs. The only thing I might like to see in
addition would be a keyword searchable index. I have already made a link to
your archive on the PCP mailing lists page
(http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/mail.html), which now also introduces our new
PCP-news announcements list for the people who find PRNCYB-L too active.

I know you have already put in a lot of trouble, but would it be difficult
to add older PRNCYB material? I have kept about everything since the
beginning of PRNCYB in 1991, but we might just go back 6 months or so, to
get a sense of perspective. The LISTSERV should still have the archives for
1995, but would send it in monthly episodes.

________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Francis Heylighen, Systems Researcher fheyligh@vnet3.vub.ac.be
PESP, Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tel +32-2-6292525; Fax +32-2-6292489; http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html