North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

To cut to the chase:

NAFEX, Inc. should have their web person download and install HTTracker
app. Runit and start a new session and speciy download folder
then tell HTTracker to go to:  https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/nafex/
and download everything. The nafex list message archives are public
therefore HTTracker can download the entire message base, month by month.
What you end up with is a mirror of the archives at ibiblio. When it is
finished, after maybe 4 house or so, it will ask you if you want to view
downloaded website. Click on it and you will see exactly what exists at
ibiblio.
They they should take the downloaded filesystem-folder and add it to their
NAFEX website somewhere so that their members can browse the list from its
origin at Yahoo groups in 2001 to the present and have all that information
at their fingertips.. Clicking on the top level .html files opens the whole
archive. This way they do not have to be involved with this list.
If they can figure out how to get HTTracker to _update_ the message archive
with new material month by month, all the better. Otherwise they can just
download the whole thing again with HTTracker and replace the old with the
new in their website periodically.

Lon Rombaugh's Grapebreeders website at ibiblio can be downloaded the same
way. It is located here: http://www.ibiblio.org/grapebreeders/
Noone is maintaining this website so I would suggest anyone that interested
should download a copy for themselves. NAFEX could add this to their
website.
As for ownership, permissions and copyright issues, I am certain there
should not be any. The site is orphaned, unowned and unmaintained.

If anyone needs more information or help let me know.

As for adding co owners to this nafex list I will be adding those who
expressed interest in helping out after finding out whether they can handle
the technical aspects of list ownership.
The main duties are dealing with new subscribers or unsubbing people who
can't figure out how to do it themselves. The main list configuration is
done and shouldn't need to be changed. The list homepage could use some
work though. We are definitely lucky to have our forum at ibiblio. Yahoo is
unacceptable, groups.io is as good or better but storage space is limited
(a consideration for the long haul) and Google Groups has issues with what
email ids subscribers use though that has been proven not to be a problem
for most people, they _can_ use non-Gmail ID's.

LL