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Re: Srader on Net Ev
Most pages that are super-temporary (less than 2 years) are private little
pages for students or people who bought online services. These will not
reflect the majority of web sources which will produce evidence.
> The one good thing about published works is that they never go down.
I wish this were true. Many published works are not archived. Some are
archived so sparsely that they may as well not be. Some are lost or destroyed.
> I don't fully agree with Deatherage on the illegitimacy of net evidence
> because some of the unpublished papers on web sites are obtainable from
> the author.
> If the author is willing to ship out a copy of an unpublished
> work to anyone who requests it <Idso's books are an example> then I think
> it's the equivalent of a published work for purposes of legitimate use as
> evidence.
Agreed.
> Listserv archives don't work like that. The author rarely keeps a copy of
> her/his posts. <I'd have a file several terabytes in volume if I did.>
> And even if someone else did, even if the team reading the cards had a
> complete copy and was willing to share it, I would think that was a
> dangerous setup. 99% of folks in the community have too much integrity to
> "alter" the evidence <and/or the source> for their own purposes, but the
> availability of the original from a neutral third party provides a check
> on that <1% who don't.
Archives solve this problem, I believe. Including the original authors email
provides a secondary check that should suffice to answer this concern as well.
Glad I'm in Chico, where it's just too hot, and the Olympics are
nothing but background noise in the bar...
Pat Gehrke
CSU Chico
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