How do I access the Forum’s archives?The Forum Archives are found in three places, all on the Web.Recent postings (usually the last three to five months’ worth) are kept on the server that hosts the Forum. You can get to them in two ways: web page or download. To download these posts, send an email to:
LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
with the message
Index Earhartforum
You will receive back two emails: one acknowledging your request, and the other with a message that looks like this:
*
* Archive files for the EARHARTFORUM list at HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
* (weekly logs)
*
* filename filetype GET PUT size (bytes) date time
* -------- -------- --- --- ------------ ---------- --------
EARHARTFORUM LOG0304A LOG OWN 89,310 2003-04-07 16:44:09
EARHARTFORUM LOG0304B LOG OWN 72,013 2003-04-14 15:35:28
EARHARTFORUM LOG0304C LOG OWN 48,438 2003-04-21 12:46:43... etc.
Here’s how to decipher this:
|
LOG |
03 |
04 |
A |
LOG OWN |
89,310 |
2003-04-07 |
16:44:09 |
| What the file is | The year | The month | The week | ignore | Size of file in bytes | Date of last posting to this log | Time of last posting to this log |
Decide which week(s) you want, and send another email to
LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
with the message:
GET EARHARTFORUM LOG0304A
GET EARHARTFORUM LOG0304Band so on. You can put all requests in one email. You’ll get an acknowledgement of each request, and a separate email with either the log in the message, or, if it’s too long for your email server, an attached text file containing the log. All the logs can be read with any text editing or word processor program.
To read the recent logs on line, go to
and click on the week you want. If you have never visited the site before, you will be directed to a page where you sign up as a user and register a password. Once that is done you should not need to sign in again; you can simply read what you like.
For all (or almost all) postings all the way back to the beginning of the Forum, the archives are on the TIGHAR website. Forum Archives.
Just click on the month you want. You can either download the text files and read them with any text editor or word processor, or you can read them on line. As each month is placed on our website, it is deleted from the Archives on the server, but not until then.
You can also read Forum Highlights, a selection of the best posts in a given time period, by going to Highlights and selecting a time period. These are web pages, not downloads.
