archive update and request for input

hello;

work on the archives continues.
i am having to edit manual many of the messages
to remove the extraneous lines of ads, etc.
while working on them late tonight i have made a
list of 94 messages/posting which i really question
about being in the archive. all of the messages
concern a past member, hoyt mckagen. below is
the list of messages.

it is my opinion that these message add little to
the group. to be blunt most of these messages are
personal attacks and flames between hoyt and other
members.

if i was making the decision concerning these messages
they would not go in the archive that will be burned to
cdrom. i would like input from others particularly bill.

if it is decided that they should not be included in the
archive i will replace them with 'placeholder' messages
to keep the message numbers in sync with the yahoo archives.

messages either from hoyt or in reply to hoyt.

2879 2915 2916 2925 2935 2937 2990 3032 3104 3107
3108 3109 3110 3111 3112 3113 3115 3118 3120 3128
3135 3141 3149 3153 3155 3156 3157 3158 3161 3162
3164 3167 3168 3179 3185 3187 3188 3189 3190 3193
3206 3213 3216 3224 3225 3246 3256 3271 3278 3279
3281 3284 3301 3309 3322 3323 3324 3325 3331 3342
3363 3368 3387 3391 3396 3397 3400 3406 3413 3414
3417 3418 3422 3444 3459 3460 3462 3469 3471 3472
3474 3479 3493 3495 3502 3503 3534 5027 5409 5415
7404 7407 7888 8286

messages which refer to hoyt.

13382 13383 13386 13392 13412 13425 13597 22886
26442 33209 33306 33308 34524

there are other messages which fall into what i have
labeled the 'obsolete' group. these concerning the
egroup takeover of onelist, the yahoo takeover of egroups,
the paypal campaign to not have ads on egroups, and obsolete
e-mail addresses and web pages. these also would be replaced
with 'placeholder' messages to keep the message numbers in
sync with the yahoo archives.

the alternative would be to make one cdrom indicating which
messages were not included, why they were not included, and
send it to bill. that cdrom would included a folder named,
blackhole, which would contain those messages not to be
included in the final archive.

--
Terry L. Ridder
Blue Danube Artistic Forge (Blaue Donau Kunstschmiede)
"We do not bend metal, we sculpt it."

digging deep, i feel my conscience burn
i need to know who and what i am
this hunger jolts me from complacency
rocks me, makes me meet myself
----kendall payne---closer to myself---