( the colors are horrible, - i know.
and i'm wide open to suggestions about it.)
(--At least they're "web-safe"
- which i'm certain is a tremendous relieve to every body. )
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This is a month-index file.
There is a '?'-link in the upper left hand corner
of each month-index page.
(this is how you got here, in case you forgot.)
It's followed by 3
Month Year
LastMonth < > NextMonth
links.
(which also show up at the bottoms of the pages, in inverted order.)
The Month link links back to the main "years" index.
The first month, Sep 1994, has no LastMonth link,
and the latest month (whatever it is, -say Mar 2005)
- has no NextMonth link.
Some months in 1994 and 1995 are empty.
They aren't included this month-to-month link-chain.
( thus accounting for the uneasy feeling you'll
have a couple of times that a couple of the LastMonth,
ThisMonth, NextMonths names - don't quite seem right,
somehow.)
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Each month's index file
lists all the threads that were started in that month.
All the responses to a thread listed in a month's index file
are listed together in that same index file.
It doesn't matter if a response was actually posted
much later than that month.
Every post is listed in its thread, which is to be found
in the month-index-file of the month that the thread
was started in.
(Off hand, I can't think of very many more ways to say this.
So I hope I've made it clear enough already. If I haven't,
I don't know what could happen. However, I can take no
resposibility for it, - whatever it might be.)
The posts are numbered, -in case any one wants to refer
to them a simple way: --by year -- by month --and by
the index number of the post in its month.
(Some numbers seem to be missing, but if you look carefully
you'll see they're there, where they should be, but in very
dimly lit links (-- clearer when you hover the cursor
over them) --that read 'MIA' after the index number.
This means "Missing In the Archive"
(see below for more about this.))
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Please let me know if any of the css and JavaScript
doesn't work for you.
I believe css works in all browsers today.
For example:
The colors of each post link should change
from
- when it hasn't been visited yet
- to when the cursor hovers over it
- to when it's already been visited
(You can of course reset all the 'visited' links to 'unvisited',
by clearing out your internet "history" folder).
But some things here only work only if you have JavaScript enabled.
For example, when you navigate from a post
to the month-index page that lists it,
that page should automatically scroll down
to center the post's link, - which should be
clearly marked with a line-through it (ie, "crossed-out").
Please let me know if any of these things don't work for you.
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Some posts, mostly from the early years, are missing.
These are indicated by very dimly lit links
(so as not to be distracting)
- that say: "MIA".
(-clearer, with the cursor over them.)
Clicking on an 'MIA' link (with JavaScript enabled) pops-up
a window with:
missing post
Message-ID: (..the message-id of the missing post..)
(With JavaScript disabled, the link just navigates to a page
saying "missing link", but not giving its Message-ID.)
Many of these MIA posts may never have existed
(-having been faked by somebody who faked header lines).
In other cases, somebody was clearly responding
to a post from a completely different newsgroup
(or 'list') - and the MIA was never in
alt.music.leonard-cohen to begin with.
Some of them might have removed by their authors,
(or by somebody!!!).
A few of them are undoubted simply missing posts,
for no good reason at all.
If anyone has any of these (check the Message-IDs)
- please let me add them to these archives.
ALSO, of course, if anybody wants a post removed from this archive,
-please state your sufficient cause
(--eg, -you posted a spam for a product that is no longer
in current production) -- and I will gladly remove it,
and replace it with an MIA link.
~greg
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