electronic content is as volatile as thoughts. i fear an important section of our dayly life will be lost to coming generations. writing was invented and printing, to preserve and share information on the long run. we still have to solve the problem regarding electronic data. it is easy to find any content on the web with search engines in seconds, but try to find the same three years later! in the medieval age, monks preserving and spreading their heritage, transported a knowledge which otherwise would have been lost. so we should keep our heritage alive, not only doing great restorations and meetings, but also as permanent source of information on the web. what dale and others do is an important contibution and we should care it doesn't end up lost in the orcus when the owner gets burned out.
snipped: dale brown wrote: "any of you are more than welcome to develop your own sites and I will link to them. Though it may seem so, it ain't so easy. I point out the demise of other very nice sites such as Peter Grenader's Allegro site, the PX10 site, etc. " ====
why do all the work over again? where are the remains of those famous sites? are they lost? does anyone of you know the owners? i would gladly try reanimating the allegro website, if anyone could hand me down peter grenader's adress and help to convince him to share its content.
martin glaettli
winterthur switzerland