Re: Frankenstein

On 11/28/2012 1:15 PM, Al Haines wrote:

>>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:38:23AM -0700, Lee Passey wrote:

>> This is great information. Can the list be made searchable,
>> so if I have
>> only the e-text number I can find the associated posting (or
>> reposting)  message?

> Posting notes are archived by month/year.  They're ordered by the date
> in which they were sent by the WWers, which is more or less in numerical
> order.  There are two exceptions: when etext numbers are reserved for
> future use and when an old, pre10K, etext is reposted.
>
> When a pre10K etext is reposted, its repost note appears in the month in
> which the reposting WWer sent the repost note.
>
> Reservations occur when numbers are prerequested, usually by DP, for a
> multi-volume set with cross-links.  Such reserved numbers may not
> actually get used/posted for some time, i.e. they might be requested in
> June, but not actually be submitted/posted until several months later,
> depending on how long it takes to post-process the various volumes of
> the set.  Posting notes for reserved numbers will appear in the month of
> posting, not the month of request.

A beautiful example of a non sequitur. The question was not "how is the 
list archive structured?" the question was "can it be made searchable so 
messages involving a specific e-text number can be found?" Of course I 
can download the zip file for every month of each of the past 3 years 
(apparently the limit of the archive), extract each file from the 
gzip/tar, and then grep for the number, but a web-based interface would 
be more user friendly.

>> When a work is reposted, is the prior version retained for historical
>> purposes?
>
> Yes.  Etext #84 is a typical example.

Great. Can you point me to version 16 which existed in 2007, and which 
is a (the?) precursor to the current version? Were there other versions 
between 16 and the current version?


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