Word Perfect 5.1 for Dos

[Evan Platt]

On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:58:11 +1000, Franc Zabkar
<fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> wrote:

Not always. Sometimes the owner of the original web site complains and
the data are then removed, or at least made unavailable. The Wayback
Machine always accedes to such requests.

Well shoot, I guess in that case, no archived site is ever permanent.
The server may crash. The burning the data is in may burn down. But I
think for the most part, in general, yes, it's permanent.
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[Franc Zabkar]

On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 16:27:59 -0700 (PDT), JeffM <jeffm_@email.com> put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Franc Zabkar wrote:

Not always. Sometimes the owner of the original web site complains
and the data are then removed, or at least made unavailable.
The Wayback Machine always accedes to such requests.

The way it's generally done is to simply alter the robots.txt file.

If a host/registrar is a small-minded twat
and the site creator allows the registration to lapse
or he doesn't pay his hosting fees,
that aforementioned capitalist twat can do this, even though
he NEVER had anything to do with the **content** of the site.

In addition to being an Orwellian way
to cover past indiscretions on the part of content uploaders,
the capitalists' angle is a known flaw in the archive.org methodology.

I recently tried to access technical documents on Western Digital's
old web sites. However, these documents were excluded by robots.txt.
I found this incredibly annoying, especially since WD's "technical"
documents are usually no more than useless marketing-speak.

Furthermore, I have often encountered sites where particular user
manuals were excluded in the same way, yet the manufacturer declined
to make these manuals available for download on the live web. That's
just *evil*.

On other occasions I have found links to PDF documents in the WayBack
archives, but the WayBack Machine chose not to archive them. A search
for the same "legacy" document on the live Web via the manufacturer's
web interface failed to find it. However, using the WayBack Machine's
archived PDF URL was often successful on the live Web. This suggests
that many documents are still available on the manufacturer's web
site, but the manufacturer has hidden them from view.

- Franc Zabkar
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[JeffM]

Man-wai Chang wrote:
Is the website's data PERMANENT?

Evan Platt wrote:
Yes.

Franc Zabkar wrote:
Not always. Sometimes the owner of the original web site complains
and the data are then removed, or at least made unavailable.
The Wayback Machine always accedes to such requests.

The way it's generally done is to simply alter the robots.txt file.

If a host/registrar is a small-minded twat
and the site creator allows the registration to lapse
or he doesn't pay his hosting fees,
that aforementioned capitalist twat can do this, even though
he NEVER had anything to do with the **content** of the site.

In addition to being an Orwellian way
to cover past indiscretions on the part of content uploaders,
the capitalists' angle is a known flaw in the archive.org methodology.

 

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On Jun 30, 2:33 am, klem kedidelhopper <captainvideo462...@gmail.com>
wrote:

my other question is :
does anyone know if WP51 is available as free or shareware due to its
age now or if it is still available at all? Thanks very much for any
assistance. Lenny

I should still have those disks. Also Planperfect and some other
programs. If you still need anything after the holiday, let me know.

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[Man-wai Chang]

On 7/3/2011 10:18 PM, Evan Platt wrote:

On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:37:33 +0800, Man-wai Chang
toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

Is the website's data PERMANENT?

Yes.

NOTHING could replace your OWN backup! NOTHING!

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