Re: archive update and request for input

Hi Terry,

I take the other side.

Searching through 40,000 records will be fun enough and just skipping
flames and post that have no value that goes to the use of machines
in any sense is not required.

Since this could be a long debate, may I suggest making a poll ?
that way we don't add to the list another 100 posts of off machine
topic posts for you to edit : )

rated value of importance 0-10 about a 3. We can (hopefully) always
go back and read them on the net.

Dave

(who will be glad to have a copy in whatever form it eventually
takes.)

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "terry l. ridder" <terrylr@b...> wrote:
> 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---