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Tony Crocker wrote:I do not consider this an acceptable situation with the archives. I cannot anticipate in the next two weeks what I might want to look up in the archives in the future.
Tony Crocker wrote:Surely there are options for storing archives somewhere.
Tony Crocker wrote:For example the early season analysis I wrote for SKIING magazine's website in 2001 was removed a couple of years ago. But I found it here: http://web.archive.org/web/200605270943 ... 38,00.html
Admin wrote:Tony Crocker wrote:I do not consider this an acceptable situation with the archives. I cannot anticipate in the next two weeks what I might want to look up in the archives in the future.
I anticipated push-back from you of course, Tony, but there is no option.
Admin wrote:As for the other issues, thanks...I'll look into them.
Admin wrote:Well, it's not optimal, but I do have an idea. (...)You can then unzip the files to your local hard drive and have a local copy to search.
Admin wrote:As this is by far the most active of our Liftlines BBS sections, I've opted to crosspost the following message from our System Annoucements section.
First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine is proud to announce that it will transition from a virtual server(...)
We will update you regarding the progress of the transition as it occurs.
You mean, like someone who is willing to drive 9 hours roundtrip and hike 5 hours in the rain to ski a 65 vertical foot scrap of snow?You just need to need a sucker, erhh, someone to start copying and pasting.
Tony Crocker wrote:You mean, like someone who is willing to drive 9 hours roundtrip and hike 5 hours in the rain to ski a 65 vertical foot scrap of snow?You just need to need a sucker, erhh, someone to start copying and pasting.Think of how many posts you could have cut and pasted in those 14 hours!
Patrick wrote:The problem with that solution is that it will only become a personal archive.
Patrick wrote:I'm might have though of this, isn't there a way to cut&paste posts? I can just you say..."Are you nuts, you're talking about &*%&?*? posts!!!!" I don't know, just brainstorming here.
Patrick wrote:Admin wrote:As this is by far the most active of our Liftlines BBS sections, I've opted to crosspost the following message from our System Annoucements section.
First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine is proud to announce that it will transition from a virtual server(...)
We will update you regarding the progress of the transition as it occurs.
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