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From: moore@cygnusx1.cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.archives
Subject: Re: anonymous ftp site list
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Date: 23 Feb 89 03:36:11 GMT
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In article <942@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>
 gould!uunet!starbarlounge.cc.umich.edu!emv (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
[...]
>The comp.archives stuff is a much more thorough attempt to
>keep track of a lot more information about each archive site.
>Unfortunately it seems doomed because of a long lag time between
>the time an interesting thing shows up on the net and the time
>someone notices.
>
>A more reasonable approach would be for some responsible person
>to watch each newsgroup & maintain a similar list of archive
>sites on a group-by-group basis.  Jon Granrose (odin@ucscb.ucsc.edu)
>has done this for comp.graphics.
[...]
This approach has the drawback that ``some responsible person'' has to
do the (tedious) work of watching one or more newsgroups and posting
the archive lists.  A compromise might be to get people to start using
the format already used in comp.archives as part of their normal postings
in other newsgroups, with a cross-post to comp.archives.  An automatic
filter mechanism could be used to extract the archive information and store
it in a database, similar to that used by some sites to maintain uucp maps.
--
Keith Moore
UT Computer Science Dept.       Internet/CSnet: moore@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu
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