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From: Mark.Dickman@elmail.co.uk (Mark )
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.problems.internet
Subject: Re: Web site /newsgroup comments
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:43:59 GMT
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On Thu, Web Master <ps_yaroze@interactive.sony.com> wrote:
>>1)  Are you expiring articles on the newsgroups, or are you going to
>    be storing the lot? Will there be a compilation of FAQs etc.
>
>Articles never expire - they are useful as a back catalogue of information.
>They are also searchable via the Web site which makes them extremely useful.
Great. :-)

>We will be archiving the newsgroups every month - they will be stored in
>seperate archive files for every month and searchable via the Web site - just
>as if they were still active.  The only difference is that they won't be
>clogging up your news reader.
You mean that you will be taking a months worth of postings, and
archiving them, leaving the posts intact on the webserver? 

What I am trying to get at is whether I can lose my current database
of articles, but come back at a later date and still download them
all. (I guess I am too used to CIX whereby I can go back into
(relative online) prehistory to get all posted messages.) 

>>2)  Would it be better to have a site last updated time, and also some
Ahh. that wasn't really the question I was going to ask! What you get
from starting to rewrite your message and then moving onto something
else :-( as you say this is the What's New section.

>... ...blimey all these have sneaked
>through.  We'll try to avoid that in future.
 :-)

>The only other thing which isn't in the What's news section is the  Members
>Home Pages....

>    >sort of order to the home web page index. eg. chronological
>    >addition, or by alphabetical order. This is because the site will
>    >become unwieldy, and difficult to browse through once there are
>    >larger numbers of people on the site.
>
>They are in chronological order - with the date that they were last
>registered.  
Ah Ok. When I last looked they didn't seem like as though there was an
order. 

>.. If you change something in your Home Page you can re-register it
>- with a new description.  
But are many people going to do that? or maybe they will now. I had
thought that the initial registration was so that you were offically
admitting to your presence on the site as it were, and so gave an
indication as to how long you'd been around. 

>>3)  When you reference something on the site (eg. with the posting of
>    the alpha RSDtool) should we explicitly reference the location.eg.
>
>    it is available at
>>http://www.playstation.co.uk/yaroze/ftp/utils/graphic/rsdtool/rsdtool.e>xe.gz
>>    which is directly clickable by most browsers.
>yep good point.  I think that everyone does, normally - you having a dig at a
>recent posting from here :-)
Not particularly :-) But it was one that caught my attention, as most
users here will be wanting to relatively minimize the online time they
use I would think. Besides it is neater...

>>4)  Can we have the ftp demos available through a normal FTP session?
>..
>This might be possible -> we need to check the security for this (you know
>how it is - big companies get wierd about FTP access to Servers).
>
>Taken it 'on board' (pure big company speak  :-).

 :-) Thanks

>Do you mean files that can't be compressed are being passed through the
>compression util?  
Yes.

>..This is an automatic process - if you set Winzip up to
>decompress as it saves it takes all the tedium out of getting the demos and
>then decompressing it.
>..it's taken 'on board'
I've got WinZip to do that and having been doing it on the few files
I've downloaded so far. It just seems a little pointless if you see
what I mean.

>Thanks for your comments.

'S-OK. :-)
One more question who are the people at SCEE that we talk to? are they
individuals or are they all sceetech or webmaster. etc? :-)

Ok another question, how about having a really cool email address of
username@playstation.co.uk, or NetYaroze.com address? (I don't expect
this to be answered, as it would be a bit of a nightmare... :-)


Mark, collector of email addresses...