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To: E who wrote (19960)	5/24/2001 3:54:41 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110648

e re, "there is a fundamental difference in not recording personal sights and settings except in one's memory and not bemoaning the loss of what is a substantial library." like i say, we all see these things differently, i suppose. remember, please, that i was commenting on "the living in the moment aspect of it all.... whereby we all have had the good fortune to participate in this cyber community and draw from it that which is most vital to us. certainly, archives are sweet, but the doing... the being there... that is the essence." mainly i was piggybacking on your statements that, "It will be very sad if it (the imminent demise of SI) happens as predicted".... for i view it differently, e. if suddenly all posts were washed from the slate... every single last one of them, vanished, i would not despair. i would count myself grateful for the fantastic participation and learning and sharing that has been si, and the knowledge that i had immersed myself in it while it thrived would save me from regret. so, would an archive be good? yep. would i be sad without one? nope. am i making one? it's in the planning phase. <g3> re, "From reading what crow said, i'm not sure it's what i want. Which is to save a few entire threads, for culling later. Do you think you might be able to do that with your software for the CL thread?" crow said, "just did a quick test (using Surfsaver 2.1) WITHOUT naviscope... and did CL (computer Learning) post 8000- 9000 (1000 posts )in 17 min.(in 10x mode) and not being particularily fast on the clicking the mouse. Works great with SI." with no other figures to go on, that looks like 5-6 hours to copy the cl thread to a hard drive. do you consider that to be good? the surfsaver site says, "SurfSaver is a browser add-on, which lets you store Web pages directly from your browser into searchable folders. SurfSaver permanently saves page on your computer -- a real advantage given the "here today, gone tomorrow" nature of the Internet. You can instantly search the pages you save (even when you're not connected to the Internet). SurfSaver is an ideal tool for researchers, packrats, and anyone else doing online research." looks like what the doctor ordered. :) mark