[Vo]:The Collective's long-term memory...
Because Vortex-l was mentioned and linked to by people commenting at various websites in the last year, we have many new minds in the Collective.. that's good! Due to its very purpose of discussing the fringes of science and technology, it has at least looked under every stone, and in some cases may have even turned the stone over and poked around in the dirt! It's archives are completely open, and can be searched here: http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=vortex-l@eskimo.com http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=vortex-l@eskimo.coma=1 a=1 Or if you want you can download them; just scroll down until you get to them here.. http://amasci.com/weird/wvort.html For example, if one does a search for 'Papp', one gets 110 hits going back to 2005: http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=vortex-l@eskimo.com http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=vortex-l@eskimo.coma=1from=subject= haswords=Pappnotwords=datewithin=1ddate=order=dateneweststart=100 a=1from=subject=haswords=Pappnotwords=datewithin=1ddate=order=datene weststart=100 And Papp has been around since at least the mid-80s, and I'm sure that he was discussed at length prior to 2005, but apparently the web-interface can only search back to '05. One would need to search the downloadable archives for further messages. So please make use of the Collective's long-term memory if you want to know more about a topic. -Mark
RE: [Vo]:The Collective's long-term memory...
Hey Jones, SVJ, Fran, Terry. I just sent a personal email to Bill. but he is so busy it might be weeks before I hear from him! The online web-searchable DB seems to start at 1/1/2002. is there any reason, other than noone having time, why older messages aren't in the same DB? I will probably regret this, but I might be willing to devote some time to write some S/W to D/L the older archives, scan them, spit out a file that can be imported into current DB. What DB is being used for the current msg store? Just trying to get ALL of the Collective's memories into one mind! -Mark
Re: [Vo]:The Collective's long-term memory...
Yes, Bill changed archiving sites at that time due to performance or cost, don't remember which. You could search the old archives and find out which! ;-) T On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:13 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Hey Jones, SVJ, Fran, Terry… I just sent a personal email to Bill… but he is so busy it might be weeks before I hear from him! The online web-searchable DB seems to start at 1/1/2002… is there any reason, other than noone having time, why older messages aren’t in the same DB? I will probably regret this, but I might be willing to devote some time to write some S/W to D/L the older archives, scan them, spit out a file that can be imported into current DB… What DB is being used for the current msg store? Just trying to get ALL of the Collective’s memories into one mind! -Mark
