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From: comparc@twwells.uucp (comp.archives)
Newsgroups: comp.archives
Subject: Welcome to comp.archives
Message-ID: <233@twwells.uucp>
Date: 1 Dec 88 11:03:01 GMT
Reply-To: comparc@twwells.UUCP (comp.archives)
Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale
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Approved: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Comp.archives is the place to look to find out where freely
distributable and electronically available software, databases,
documents, or what have you, can be had. "Freely distributable"
means that, if you have a copy of the item, you can (at least) make
exact copies and give them away, and you don't have to tell the owner
of the item (if any) that you have done so. "Available
electronically" means, for my purposes, that it is obtainable through
a publicly accessible network. Also included may be things which can
be had by other means, so long as this does not involve paying a fee
to the distributor. This information is provided as a free service
and there is *no one* guaranteeing that any of it is accurate or
useful. Use it your own risk.
The main purpose of comp.archives is to enable people to maintain
databases on archive sites and their contents. Postings whose subject
lines start with DB: are used for that maintenance. DB: articles may
also be of interest to those not maintaining the databases, as they
often contain non-database information as well.
There are three databases being maintained, one listing archive sites,
one listing things available through some archive site, and one
listing what is in each archive.
[Currently, only the first has much in it. This will change Real Soon
Now.]
Besides this, there are articles from various archive sites which
describe their archives, postings describing how to use the networks
for archive access, and digested discussions relating to archives,
archiving, and archive access.
Temporarily, I am accepting "looking for..." postings, so long as
they are requests for archive sites which have the items.
Articles sent to comp.archives may not be cross-posted, I will remove
cross-postings before I post the articles.
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I intend that anyone who is sufficiently diligent can create for
himself databases of archive information from the postings that come
through comp.archives.
[No, the software to do this automatically does not yet exist. This
too should change Real Soon Now.]
There are three databases, summarized below. More complete
information is in the following posting.
1) The archive site directory.
This is a database of archive sites. Each archive site that I am
posting information for will have some kind of entry here. Here
is the first entry that made it into the database:
NM gatekeeper.dec.com
EN vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A. Vixie) Tue Oct 25 14:17:17 PDT 1988
AD vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A. Vixie)
MA 100 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301
CO ftp;ftp;gatekeeper.dec.com;128.45.9.52;/pub;
DE Gatekeeper is DEC's anonymous FTP machine. Lots of interesting things
DE show up here, including the latest version of anything having to do with
DE X Windows.
The data is:
NM
EN
TM