Re: Preview of Web-based archives for Sorehand

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: David Dryden <http://www.DRY.ORG/~David>
 > Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 21:16:49 -0400
 >
 > Hi all,
 > I am new to RSI and to Sorehand, but have benefited already from Sorehand
 > and other online resources that people have contributed.
 > 
 > To do my bit, I have put together a preliminary version of a Web-based
 > searchable archive for Sorehand.  This is based on, and is running on the
 > same server as, the archives of another Listserv list which I have been
 > archiving for a few years now.
 > 
 > You can browse or search the preliminary Sorehand archives by visiting
 > http://h00aa00340d43.ne.mediaone.net/archives -- which is a  temporary name
 > for it; I intend to very soon come up with something that trips off the
 > tongue more easily.  Suggestions are welcome (especially from people who
 > control DNS servers and could point a suitable subdomain name at my server).

www.vdirect.com offers free domain redirection

(but you must register a domain, which does cost money :-( ).

www.zoneedit.com may as well

 > Messages will be archived once per day.  Message numbers in article URLs
 > will be permanent, so we can reliably point to previous messages by their
 > URL in the archives.
 > 
 > For the sake of privacy I will password protect the archives; the password
 > will be made known to list members.  This is not intended to be high
 > security but it will ensure that our messages don't show up on Google searches.
 > 
 > I call this version "preliminary" because:
 > 1) The site doesn't have a final domain name yet
 > 2) The daily updates job is not yet running, so the archives are currently
 > static with only 1999,2000,and 2001 through July.
 > 3) I haven't implemented password protection yet, which will become
 > important when the site's domain or subdomain name is chosen.
 > 
 > If anybody has Sorehand listserv archive files from years prior to 1999, I
 > could also put those up on the Web-based archive.  1999 is as far back as
 > the Listserv was able to provide me recently.
 > 
 > Functional or technical suggestions, questions, comments to: http://www.Dry.Org/~David
 > 
 > Best regards,
 > -David
 > Boston, MA, USA