[tdwg-content] Stability of tdwg-content postings?

Steve Baskauf steve.baskauf at vanderbilt.edu
Mon Mar 28 16:17:56 CEST 2011


OK, thanks all for the clarification and I'm glad to know that the 
messages are there to be searched for.  However, I would request that 
there be a commitment made to not let the URLs change again (at least 
not if it can be helped).  I believe that the tdwg-content list has some 
sort of official status as a record of discussion related to proposed 
changes to TDWG standards, and as such it should be stable.  In October 
2010 there were over 250 emails (many sharing the same subject line and 
by the same writers), some of which were extremely important in 
elucidating the community understanding of important concepts related to 
Darwin Core.  I have recently spend many hours combing through these 
messages in an effort to summarize what was said and I've been recording 
the URLs of the source emails.  I would not want to ever have to do that 
again...

Steve

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Markus Döring wrote:
> All messages do exist and are archived. 
> But when we merged the various mailinglists into one the static html view of the mailinglist had to be regenerated and apparently the urls of some messages have changed then as they use some local serial number to identify messages instead of a native message id. 
>
> This is indeed a nasty consequence we didnt foresee and that I cant think of any solution for I am afraid.
>
> Markus
>
>
> On Mar 28, 2011, at 2:50, John Wieczorek wrote:
>
>   
>> Odd. The URLs in my 31 August 2010 don't seem to point to the intended
>> content any longer, but the relevant postings do still exist. Happily
>> I gave the subject headings in my posting. They are on the monthly
>> message indexes (such as
>> http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-content/2009-June/) and have the
>> subject headings:
>>
>> assertions in DwC terms
>> Request for Decision for Public Review of DarwinCore Draft Standard
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Steve Baskauf
>> <steve.baskauf at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>>     
>>> I have been reviewing some posts in the tdwg-content archives and got to
>>> this one:
>>> http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-content/2010-August/000060.html
>>> It references a number of previous posts related to background on the
>>> DwC standard, such as
>>> http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-content/2009-June/000019.html
>>> However, those links don't seem to do anything any more.  There are
>>> other emails whose URLs begin with
>>> http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-content/2009-June/
>>> found in the June 2009 archives:
>>> http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-content/2009-June/thread.html
>>> but not the ones referenced in the August 2010 message.  I have been
>>> assuming that although it is a bit inconvenient to look things up in the
>>> list archives, the messages that have been sent would nevertheless be
>>> permanently archived.  Is that not true?
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
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