From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Subject: this collection

This is a collection of materials useful for the maintenance of
internet archive sites.  Think of it as a home for the most useful
bits that come out of comp.archives.admin and you won't be too far off.

There's no source code here, just text and pointers to text.  I'm
keeping it small because the link from here to there is slow and I
don't want to abuse the privelege.

If you fetch this file or other stuff drop me a line at 
	emv@msen.com
and let me know what I'm missing, what you'd like to see, etc.

I'm trying very hard to keep stuff up to date on a rolling basis,
essentially to do an "ls -lr" on the directory and update the oldest
thing.  We'll see how that turns out.  I'd like to keep this archive
no more than a week or so out of date on any one topic but that's far
from easy....in fact, I ended up letting it sit for about two months
now before updating it (sorry about that)

Here's a short description of each of the directories.  You'll need to
look at the .README files and probably also at the .vrfy and .mirror
files to get a good sense for what's here.  The collection is still
under construction, recommendations and additions welcomed.

archie		union catalog of FTP site directories
cni		Coalition for Networked Information
comp.archives	newsgroup full of pointers to ftp'able packages
describe	alternative "ls" program to describe package contents
filtering	workshops and conferences on information filtering
homely		database of packages and their home locations
incoming	(random stuff)
lists		lists and catalogs of archive sites and information
mirror		straightforward ways to mirror a remote site
news-archives	pointers to where netnews is archived
pasadena	Mitch Wyle's netnews filtering project
patents		(random patent information)
prospero	Cliff Neumann's virtual filesystems project
sgml		Standard General Markup Language stuff
wais		Brewster Kahle et al's Wide Area Information Service
www		WorldWideWeb, a hypertext system

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Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com
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