[Apologies for the last, quotes-only, email - hit the wrong button]
On 10/07/06, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
I agree that this would be useful, to the extent
it's possible ("there
is a 6-12 month lag between the date a site is crawled and the date it
appears in the Wayback Machine"). Also, since IA can and will remove
pages from the archive under certain circumstances (one of which is
when a robots.txt file appears later), you still have to worry about
an archive disappearing later.
Mmm. IA have made it reasonably clear that they're not there to
compete with paid-for "real archives", if that makes sense - they're
not going to be competing with the NYT for access to NYT backstories,
which are our major need for links to transient pages. It *is* better
than nothing - especially if we extend it to the national
legal-deposit archives that will be slowly appearing - but I'm not
sure if it'd be enough benefit to be worth the work.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk