Cleansing the IP directories

Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 15:09:45 -0400 (AST)
From: David Potter <potter@csuite.ns.ca>
To: Christopher Majka <nextug@is.dal.ca>
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On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Christopher Majka wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, David Potter wrote:
> 
> > These are 'dal' addresses and they.... want them back/want us off/...some
> > variation of this. To be honest I'd like to retire them myself and move
> > on. 
> 
> Me too: less scope for confusion. BTW, does this mean that URL references
> to cfn.cs.dal.ca & ccn.cs.dal.ca will bounce in the future? These URLs
> still exist in massive numbers in search engines, etc.

We're hoping to switch the search-engines over to chebucto also... we've
got a very comprehensive plan to accomplish this over a number of weeks.
The first step is to eliminate them from our site...
 
> > > Do you mean a guninea-pig IP site? ;->
> > 
> > Yes... someone with machine generated pages... although it's likely that
> > these won't be touched in the process.
> 
> By 'machine-generated' you mean ...? 

Microsoft Front-Page is one I think... I've never used one... ;-)

> > Yes... we'd do it overnight... I'd probably do one section first
> > ( Technology/ ...?) and then assuming we don't have problems do the rest
> > the next night. 
> >  
> > However we need to provide notice to IP's, and an opportunity for them
> > to do the work themselves if they so choose.
> 
> When you're ready to roll, send out a notice to all-ips@chebucto.ns.ca,
> give them a week, and then carry on.

I'd rather do it on 3-4 days notice.... if possible.

david potter

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