[AUUG-Talk]: Scans of old AUUGNs, pt 2

Frank Crawford frank at crawford.emu.id.au
Tue Oct 13 22:36:10 EST 2009


P.S. The Google scanning also includes many of the Proceedings of
various AUUG conferences and mini-conferences.

Frank

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 22:25 +1100, Frank Crawford wrote: 
> Folks,
> To bring you up to date with where the Google scanning is up to, all the
> AUUGN's that we have multiple copies of, have been sent off for
> destructive scanning.  That is basically V6-25, less a couple of
> specific issues.  I now have more of the missing ones to add to the list
> (from Munro Saunders).
> 
> At present I don't have a date for when they are expected to be online,
> however, it should be this year.
> 
> Google have some advantages over Warren's setup in that it does not
> revolve around a single person, and should have better indexing
> facilities (yet to be confirmed).  (Warren is also after some of the
> indexing details too.)
> 
> However, despite those comments, I'd like to thank Warren (and John
> Dodson who also did a couple) since it gives AUUG a copy that we
> control, and we are looking at getting some of the copies that Warren
> has to replace any missing ones with Google.
> 
> So, really these from Warren and Google will compliment each other and
> give us something to move forward with.
> 
> Regards
> Frank
> 
> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 21:31 +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: 
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:38:57PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Hi Warren,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:16:03 +1000 Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I would dearly like some people to snail mail me the missing issues so I
> > > > can complete the set, on the understanding that I will have to break the
> > > > spine to do the scanning, and I will snail mail the originals back.
> > > 
> > > Are you aware that Google have been sent a complete set to scan?
> > 
> > Are you aware that it hasn't been scanned yet?
> > 
> > Edwin
> > 
> 



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