[MAGNet] Mail archives rotated

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From: Tom Holub (tom@LS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Thu Jan 02 2003 - 14:55:35 PST


The mail archives for webnet, micronet, and magnet have been rotated;
previous archives can be found at <http://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/magnet/2002/>.
(Permute as desired for other mailing lists and years).

In the interest of URL permanence (an important and much-neglected aspect
of web server management--see <http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980614.html>),
the archives, including the current year's, now all include the year in
the URL. (This article, for example, will appear as
<http://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/magnet/2003/0001.html>. This way, each URL
will retain its canonical location indefinitely, instead of being broken
at the beginning of each new year.

I have placed a minimal index page at the root of the magnet, micronet,
and webnet directories, but it would probably be more convenient for
most users to go to <http://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/magnet/current/>, which
is a permanent URL which will always redirect to the current year's archive.
Those of you who link to these archives might want to change your links.
(Which is a violation of the very principle I'm trying to espouse, but
necessary to break out of our legacy system).

So a brief recap:

Last year's archives are now at:
<http://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/magnet/2002/>
<http://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/micronet/2002/>
<http://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/webnet/2002/>

The preferred archive URL's are now:
<http://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/magnet/current/>
<http://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/micronet/current/>
<http://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/webnet/current/>

Individual articles will have a canonical URL which includes the current
year.

Let me know if anything breaks.

-- 
Tom Holub (tom_holub@LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
College of Letters & Science
249 Campbell Hall
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