The Rules of AustenArchive

~mhc Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (00:34) seed

This is a summary of the discussions in chat that set the rules for the Austenarchive conference: Consensus that there be creation of "austenarchive" conference No posting allowed in "austenarchive"; followups to material in "austenarchive" should occur in the active "austen" conference. Some ideas from earlier in the discussion (i.e. not final): From: The Mysterious H.C. (Home Page) at 1/27/97 10:55 PM Okay, the main possibilities that seem to be emerging are: 1. Move deadwood topics to "austenarchive", with transitional Unix filesystem link to "austen", but postings frozen. 2. Move deadwood topics to "austenarchive", concatenate topics in "austenarchive", no transitional Unix filesystem link to "austen". 3. With long topics in "austen" (like drooling), freeze topic and create new topic; eventually move old topic to "austenarchive" (with transitional Unix filesystem link), or move it there right away (with HTML link to new "austenarchive" location). From: Myretta at 1/27/97 11:06 PM I propose: 1. Freeze all inactive topics and create (Unix) link to archive for 1 week, then remove from active conference. 2. Move long but active topics to archive and create a new topic with an HTML link to the archived topic. The final consensus: From: The Mysterious H.C. (Home Page) at 1/27/97 11:23 PM OK, so this is new consensus?? 1. Immediately move dated topical material (JA birthday, etc.) to "austenarchive" conference. 2. Warn that other inactive topics will be moved to "austenarchive"; after one week do so, if there are no new postings. When moving stuff to "austenarchive", consolidate similar topics into one, if possible. 3. Move big topics to "austenarchive", and for each one, create a similar new topic with an HTML link to the new location (in "austenarchive") of the old topic file. Under this proposal there is NO freezing of topics in the active "austen" conference and no Unix-filesystem linking of topics between "austen" and "austenarchive" (that is, no topics will belong to both conferences at same time). From: Myretta at 1/27/97 11:29 PM 1.Create Austen Archive 2.Post warning in old topics - wait a week. 3.Freeze Old Topics 4.Copy Old Topics to Archive 5.Remove Old Topics 6.Identify long, actives to be archived. 7.Freeze long actives 8.Copy actives to archive 9.Create new topic with html link to archive. 10.Delete old long active. 11. Create link to archive on Austen welcome page.

~mhc Sun, Feb 2, 1997 (07:43) #1

From: "Myretta Robens" Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 14:01:38 -0500 Subject: AustenArchive I have created a user id with a login of austena (all lower case). This user is a member of the bbs and wheel groups and owns both the austenarchive directory and the topic files. You may create topic files and add responses only from the yapp prompt. You can only read with the web interface. After creating a new topic file, the owner must be changed to austena and the permissions to rw-rw-r--. Thus: cd /usr/bbs/confs/austenarchive chown austena filename (i.e., _1) chmod 664 filename (_1) Or contact someone who is used to this (me, for example) I guess this will have to do until someone tells us how to do it with the application. Let me know if you have any questions. Myretta

~churchh Tue, Feb 11, 1997 (12:29) #2

From: "Amy Bellinger" <:amyloo@bluemarble.net>: Subject: Cleaning Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 09:25:33 -0500 Okay, I'll stop cleaning up. I just wanted to see what was involved. Or how I'd do it. There are lots of ways. Here is how I did it: JUST MOVING A TOPIC (say an old one that does not beg to be continued, like "Merry, merry holidays to all")?: Link step 1. Go to shell 2. Type "BBS" 3. Type "j austenarchive" 4. Type link austen [x] where x is the topic number Kill step 1. Type "j austen" 2. Type "kill [x] or, in the web interface, 1. Go to the dead topic 2. Hit the kill button (if you don't have one, you are not a host in the conference) ARCHIVING A HUGE TOPIC - Same procedure, butcept there are a couple more steps. - Do the Link step above Create topic step - To make a new topic in the austen conference in the shell 1. Type "j austen" 2. Type "enter" 3. At "Enter your text" prompt, type [topic description, long as you like] 4. Type "." to end text entering 5. At "Enter a one line subject" prompt, type [a one line subject for the new topic, may want to specify "was, [old name] if changed] In the web interface 1. From the main conference page, hit the "create topic" button 2. Enter subject line first in this case 3. Enter description, remembering to get rid of the "Invalid whatever" line Copy step 1. In the web interface, select and copy enough of the latest messages from the old topic to refresh users' memories 2. Paste it in the new topic Kill step That's it. (Combining topics is more complicated.)