8FOLD/META: Where Do The Old Stories Go? (and, the 8fold Wiki)

Drew Perron pwerdna at gmail.com
Thu May 18 19:42:55 PDT 2017


On 5/17/2017 8:53 PM, Scott Eiler wrote:
> On 2017-05-17 16:17, Drew Perron wrote:
>> On 5/17/2017 9:23 AM, Tom Russell wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 9:28:17 PM UTC-4, Scott Eiler wrote:
<snip>
>>>> Tom, since you have published some of these stories in professional
>>>> media, I understand letting the public posts of the old stories expire.
>>>> Do you do this?  If so...  How long is the retention period?
>>>
>>> I've never done this, so I'm not sure how any of this works.
>>
>> I think that's an automatic thing your news server does?
>
> I was guessing, it's an obscure setting on your newsreader.  Either way, it
> manifests itself as a line on your posts, something like "x-no-archive:yes".  I
> learned this in the 1990s, from some particularly paranoid people.

Ohhhhh, x-no-archive! Okay, that makes sense.

>>> I don't have the resources to archive stories myself, but if anyone
>>> wants to, I'd be more than happy to give it my blessing.
>>
>> Oh, man. TBH I've really been wanting to, especially to have a place to
>> point people at my Medley stories... maaaaan... Okay, I think I need to
>> do this X3
>
> gee, Drew, you have untapped computer resources!

I have friends who give me server space. >#>

> ehh, yeah, the 8Fold Wiki on Wikia is (apparently) small enough that you could
> easily migrate it - or just start over and build it bigger within weeks.

Indeed~ Like Adrian said, Wikidot's probably best.

Drew "so many things to do!" Perron


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