Re: An idea... Discussion???

[P3D Dan Shelley <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

P3D Brian Reynolds wrote:

>> I have been slowly visiting all 350 or so 3D links and sadly, some older
>> sites are GONE... =( I know this is "normal", but I will miss the
>> ability to go and see the images and/or information that was there.
>>
> 
> There are programs that will traverse a list of links (by reading in
> your html file) and point out the bad ones.  I don't keep big link
> lists on the sites I administer, so I don't know the names of any of
> these programs off hand.  Contact me off-list if you want me to look
> them up for you.

Thanks, but I am actually judging content, etc as I check. I am not only
interested in verifying the links.

>>Would enough of you be
>> willing to pay $25 or so for the physical costs of the CD burn, the HTML
>> coding and gathering the image copies?
> 
> Collecting all the data and putting it on a CD-ROM is the easy part.
> I think the biggest issue is that you will have to get permission from
> the author of every one of the sites to use their images and
> information (links to the sites do not require permission) on your
> CD-ROM.  

That has lalready entered the discussion. No one's site would be copied
without their expressed permission.

> Just because you can access some information on the Web does not give you
> the right to redistribute it via another media (or for that matter to
> copy it and put it on your own web site).  

This is true, but I am only suggesting the distribution of the images
themselves with links to the original sites if permission is not
obtainable... Trust me when I tell you that some of these sites have
been abandoned. I have tried contacting many 3D people in the past, and
NEVER heard back from them... Also, their pages do not change content
for YEARS. Anyway, I suspect that most people will be reachable, and not
have a problem with the speedier distribution of their images or even
their whole sites. We will see...

> If you do get permission (and is has been done in the past), I would
> be interested in buying one of the CD-ROMs (assuming it is in ISO 9660
> format (preferably with the Rock Ridge extensions)).

Great... We are at about 10... Any others?

Dan Shelley
dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.dddesign.com/3dbydan


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