Thanks. So far the efforts have been quite limited indeed. Just thinking about what a more complete web site on this concept might be, it appears that the broken link issue might be just solved by the search/filter feature. I would propose some sort of query form that allows to search/filter by the following criteria:
- type: PESO/GESO/PAW - Author - keywords in Title and/or Description (i.e. the original author's mail) and/or comments (the whole thread that followed) - date range - domain (where the photos are stored) - link status: All links OK/some links broken/all links broken (at the time of scan) Of course, posts with all links broken would not be selected by default. IMO, checking these links only once (at time of scan) is a non-issue, as a link broken at a given time will probably never fix later. This would save a lot of bandwidth compared to a check during each access. Anyway, links should be re-checked every now and again, to mark dead ones. Re-scanning already dead links is just a matter of eating more bandwidth, and may be done less frequently. The great plus would be thumbnails, but this would bring a whole lot of technical and non-technical issues (copyright? Is this any different from Google images? I know I'm not Google yet ;-) ). After all, I might do this web site just for the fun. Patrice 2008/4/30 Brian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Patrice > > Broken links or not, this is fantastic. Thanks for your efforts. > > I ran Zenu Link checker through the file and, indeed, there are many > broken links but lots more that aren't. > > > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > > > > > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:29:55 +0200, "Patrice LACOUTURE (GMail)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hello, > > > > While I haven't posted much for months, I've sat silently and read the > > PDML once in a while... I've always been quite impressed by the average > > quality of PUG, but also PESOs, GESOSs, and PAWs... > > > > Since almost 2 years, I haven't discarded any PDML e-mail, and it > > occurred to me that I could compile all those PESOs into a nice database > > with links to the actual images... > > > > A few lines of code and here it is (at least, a preliminary version of > > it): > > > > http://www.lacouture.nom.fr/pdmlpesos/ > > > > There is a list of the latest 3663 PESOs, PAWs and GESOs, with the > > original PDML message, including links to the actual images (as they > > were in the messages). > > > > Of course, many of these links are now broken, and my parsing engine may > > have done outright errors (typically in interpreting the message titles > > to determine PESOs/PAWs/GESOs). > > > > For now it's a bit crude. However, if there's sufficient interest in > > this work, I might give it some extra effort for nicer look and > > features, such as grouping/searching by author, type (PESOs vs GESOs), > > keywords, displaying PDML member comments threads, or whatever we could > > imagine... > > > > Enjoy, and as usual, feedback is welcome. > > > > Patrice > > > > PS: Of course, "Great" in the subject refers to these images for > > quality, and to the compilation itself for quantity :-) > > > > -- > -- > > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely different… > > > -- > > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
