Marx/Engels WWW Archive -- REMOVED (06/16/1995)
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Date: 16 Jun 1995 11:58:15
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Subject: Marx/Engels WWW Archive -- REMOVEDHi... This is a note, for those who notice the M/E Archive, both gopher and WWW version, is now gone. It has been disabled, at least temporarily, by the computer administrators at the University of Colorado. The M/E Library has been around for coming on two years or so. It was given life through the generosity of some elements at the University of Colorado, allowing me to store in a handy place all the ascii texts of M/E works I was uploading to netnews and lists. It is entirely the product of volunteer effort. No Colorado money has ever gone into it -- except in providing some disk space and bandwidth, for people to access it. And people have accessed it. I have received email from people around the world -- North America, South America, Europe, Russia, North Africa and Australia. Students have found it valuable to be able to get copies of M/E texts that are more obscure than Capital; and scholars and working people can import these texts into word processes and do comprehensive searches of subjects/words. Recently, Fortune magazine mentioned the site -- in a slightly derogatory manner, which is not unexpected. However, this has apparently brought the site to the attention of various Colorado University elites. The site is now down -- if only temporarily. Apparently Karl Marx is still a dangerous man. He's not politically correct in Republican states, at least. To prevent anything like this ever happening again, I am interested in setting up the archive in various mirror sites around the world. Ideally, at least one site in Europe, one in Australasia, and one in North America. That way it takes the load off a single system and means it can never be censored unilaterally. I'd appreciate hearing from people with the resources to house such a thing. One site would act as the "main site" at which M/E archivists would work, while the mirror sites would simply run update programs every two weeks or so. The site, since becoming WWWeb-ized, is naturally larger -- pix take up space and bandwidth. Thanks for listening. Piping Marx & Engels into cyberspace, Zodiac.