X-Message-Number: 4870
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 23:50:09 -0400
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <>
Subject: Archive update

I've made further progress with my complete web archives of Cryonet:

* All messages are now indexed by sender.  For each of the 318 people
  who have posted to Cryonet, there is a page which lists their true
  name (if known), their current e-mail address (if known), their
  current web page (if known), their current cryonics affiliation and/or
  claim-to-fame (if known), and all of the messages they have ever
  posted to Cryonet, in chronological order, showing message number,
  date, subject, and size.  You can click on e-mail address, web page,
  or any of the messages.  Please check your page, if you can, and tell
  me if anything is missing, out of date, badly formatted, misattributed
  or wrong.

* All web pages mentioned in any cryonet message ever, are now
  actual links to those web pages.

* All cryonet message numbers mentioned in any cryonet message in
  the past few months, are now actual links to those messages.  I'm
  gradually working my way backwards to earlier and earlier messages.
  After I get all of them, I intend to add the opposite -- links from
  every mentioned message to every mentioning message.

* Messages were packed together in single files 0006, 0007, 0011, 0012,
  0013, 547, and parts of 0014.  I've unpacked these messages into
  separate files, and made each of the above files into indices to them,
  just as 0001 has long been the index into the main discussion messages
  such as this one.  To get a complete list of message files, you need
  to obtain all of these files, plus 0000.

* I've started work on the keyword index.  Please mail me suggestions
  for keywords.  Mail them to me, not to the list.  A keyword can be
  multiple words, such as "cold room" or "Prospect of Immortality".
  Case, spaces, line breaks, and punctuation will be ignored.  It should
  be something that won't appear in many thousands of messages as
  "Alcor" and "CryoCare" do.

* After finishing all of the above, I will implement a subject line
  index.  I'm doing this last because I expect it to be least useful.
  You can help make it more useful by avoiding subject lines such as
  "Re: #6785 - #6789".

This archive is reachable as
http://www.access.digex.net/~kfl/les/cryonet/

You can also obtain the files via anonymous ftp from the
/pub/access/kfl/public_html/les/cryonet/ directory on host
ftp.digex.net.  This is actually the same place.  The files do all
contain html tags, but I deliberately kept the html very light, so as
not to interfere with readability.  I intend to put a file README.txt
into the directory for ftp users.  It will tell them how to find
things, and how to remove the html tags from the files they download.

This site is connected to the rest of the net with three T3 lines, so
response time should be excellent.

Between the addition of html tags, and the removal of trailing blanks,
trailing tabs, and superfluous blank lines, any PGP signatures will
probably fail to work.  Please mail me if this is a problem, and we
can work something out.

As always, I eagerly welcome and criticisms or suggestions.
--
Keith Lynch, 
http://www.access.digex.net/~kfl/


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