North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 6:29 PM Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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.
>

If there are issues for them with posts in the message archives they don;t
want in there they can be edited out. Once you ID them then you can go to
the (html) files containing them and delete them, then delete their entry
in the maillist.html file associated with that month's archive. At least I
think this would work without corrupting the whole archive. You can always
edit the files in question.

>
> 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
>
>

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Lawrence F. London, Jr.
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