X-Message-Number: 4807 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 15:41:31 -0400 From: "Keith F. Lynch" <> Subject: Complete Cryonet archives on the web The complete Cryonet archives are now available via web and ftp. This includes all the messages, including the cryonics.politics messages, the reference files, the FAQs, and the messages that were too big to post to the list. If anyone finds anything missing, please tell me. Web: http://www.access.digex.net/~kfl/les/cryonet/ Anonymous ftp (directory): ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/kfl/public_html/les/cryonet/ I am doing this with the knowledge and consent of Kevin Brown and Timothy Freeman. These archives are sponsored by the Life Extension Society, a society of cryonicists and life extensionists in the mid- Atlantic region of the US. Currently the web archives are only searchable by message number. Message numbers 0000, 0001, and 0014, however, contain a complete list of all the other messages, by size, sender, and subject. I intend to index them by sender, after I return from the Worldcon, with a web page for each sender, listing all of that sender's messages. I intend to list each sender as last name, first name, middle initial, address, number of messages, size of messages, affiliation, and link to any home page. Please mail me what you'd like me to list for affiliation. Please keep it short. For instance, "President of Alcor" or "CryoCare member" would be good. Please mail this to me, , not to the list. Also please mail me your preferred e-mail address if you have posted to Cryonet with more than one. Also please mail me the URL of your home page if you have one and want it listed here. Thanks. There's already a Cryonet reference file which pretty much contains what I want, message 0002. But it's out of date and only a few people are listed there. I also intend to index all messages by subject line. To make this more usable, please give your messages meaningful subject lines. If it says "Re: clathrates" I will file it under "clathrates". If it says "Re: #6789" I will automatically file it under whatever the subject line for #6789 was. But if it says "Re: # 6778 - #6789" I won't take the time to figure out which of those messages it was in reply to. It won't be filed under subject line at all. If your mailer won't let you set the subject line to something useful, you can type a new subject line, beginning with "Subject: " (without the quotes) on the first line of your message. I also intend to index all messages by keyword. Please mail me any suggested keywords. For each keyword, I will have a web page which lists all messages which contain that keyword. Please mail them to me, , not to the list. Please mail me as many as you like. Don't assume someone else would have listed it already. Even if they did, I'm more likely to include it if more people list it. Sorry, I'm not willing to use *all* words ever found in a Cryonet message as keywords. That would more than double the disk space these archives are using, and it would take forever for users to load the web page containing the full keyword list anyway. Maybe in a few more years, when disk space and bandwidth are too cheap to meter, and everyone has a T3 line into their laptop PC. I intend to save space by stripping out trailing blanks and tabs on each line, and by removing redundant blank lines, and unimportant header lines. I've already done so with some of the messages. Unfortunately, this may cause those few messages that were signed with PGP to be falsely signalled as forgeries if anyone checks them with PGP. If you have signed Cryonet messages with PGP, please tell me whether this is a concern. If it is, I will be sure to leave your PGP signed messages untouched, or to re-obtain an untouched copy, or to reconstruct them. I eagerly solicit suggestions on how to make this archive more useful. I'm leaving for the Worldcon in Scotland in about an hour. I'll be back on the 29th. Until then, I expect to be off the net, so please don't expect prompt replies. -- Keith Lynch, http://www.access.digex.net/~kfl/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4807