Re: Mirroring PostgreSQL related content

Elein,

I agree and I strongly believe it was and remains the idea. (to let
the contributor inform and authorize about a certain document, keeping
the hits/credits on the contributor side).

What about creating a form to save  the authors, urls and a short
description, letting the comunity create their own entries,  saving
information in a /the database and regularly cronchecking these
objects to avoid 404's ? This should be managed and authorized by
someone tho. Wondering, moderators?

I can do that,  php / perl based. (form php, cron job running a perl
script, using lwp or alike).

g.-



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Talking bout link checkers, I used the w3 web based one, which created
a good report about the situation. Anyway, what I did was to confirm
that these are broken links, and not syntax mistakes, wrong urls. That
report is attached as a .zip

g.-


On 4/21/06, elein <elein@varlena.com> wrote:
> Speaking for my site, www.varlena.com/GeneralBits, only,
> I prefer to have a prominent (not deep) link on postgresql.
> I do not want my content mirrored by I want the link to be useful.
>
> Although I have been slacking in writing new articles, there is a
> 3 year repository of articles on my site.  The point of these
> articles was to help postgres users--it is my return to the community.
> As it stands, most people get to my articles through google and
> not the postgresql.org web site.
>
> This is just one point of view from a heavy content provider of
> postgresql articles.  People who have a few articles may well
> want them to be hosted on postgresql.org.
>
> In the past we have been lax about organizing and maintaining
> individual informational articles.  Techdocs (ack!) It may be possible
> to push this over onto planetpostgres as long as we give ample
> visibility to its link.  And people know where to post articles or
> links to them.
>
> --elein
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:55:10PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > After seeing reports of some very interesting sounding articles that
> > were hosted elsewhere are now 404...
> >
> > Do we make any efforts to mirror the content of PostgreSQL related
> > stories or articles? Presumably this would require contacting authors
> > for permission, but perhaps we can find some enthusiastic newbies to do
> > that...
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