(ET) (Fwd) Re: Elec-trak.org mirror

["David Roden (Akron OH USA)" <roden ald net>]

On 31 Jul 2003 at 19:06, Andrew Poush wrote:

> This has already been done by the internet archive.

The archive is a good idea, and a valuable resource.  

Fortunately elec-trak.org (at least the one you cite) seems to be intact 
on 
the archive. That doesn't always seem to be the case.   

It may be that I just don't know how to use it right, but I've tried the 
archive for some other sites that had gone missing, and in many cases I've 
found that only part of the site was archived.  Often it's just the 
homepage 
and a few others - usually not the part I need.  Sometimes images are 
missing.  Here's an example:  

http://web.archive.org/web/20020528211503/http://www.corbinmotors.com/

And even when a site's all there, it's always horrendously slow to load.  
If 
you don't know exactly where to find the information you want, you may as 
well forget it - displaying one page can take upwards of a quarter-hour.   

> It's one of the good examples of what our tax dollars can do.

I'm not an insider, but it appears to me that the archive is a nonprofit 
corporation funded by donations from various sources.  This is a good 
thing, 
IMO.  There's no indication anywhere that they receive any tax dollars, 
but 
I suppose it's possible.  


David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
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1991 Ford Escort Green/EV 128vdc
1970 GE Elec-trak E15 36vdc
1974 Avco New Idea 36vdc
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