Canceled the previous message, skipped half the stuff I needed to
mention, and refreshed my skill with sed in a few minutes.

Chris B wrote:
> 
> "Sabrina Kilian" <ski### [at] vtedu> wrote in message
> news:4ad79e6c$1@news.povray.org...
>> Chris B wrote:
>>> Following on from the earlier two Geocities threads, I've updated the
>>> page at http://povhouse.freewebsites.com/geocities/objects.html to show
>>> the progress for the stuff I'm concentrating on.
>>
>> I realized, reading the above page, that you may have thought I was
>> going to re-host all of the sites. That was not my intent, though I will
>> help out if just a few of them want sites re-hosted. My intent was to
>> host only the files that were authorized for redistribution.
>>
> 
> That's what I thought. It's just that, with some of the content it's a
> bit difficult to spot the authorization, so I've been taking a note of
> any authorization I've spotted as I've been grubbing around on the site
> and in the files for the small subset of 16 sites I've been looking at
> in detail. I've also been keeping a note of authorizations received via
> this newsgroup or that I received via email in my spreadsheet. For the
> work you're doing, that's solely in case you find any of it useful and
> it's only for the subset of 16 sites that I've been digging around in.
> 
> Unfortunately I haven't been able to update the list on the
> 'freewebsites' host because it hasn't let me FTP to it for days. I've
> now got responses for 8 of the subset of 16 sites that I've focused down
> on, either with permission to put content on the object collection or
> with news that the site is being relocated by the author.
> 

Any chance I could get that updated list? I may take a local copy just
till I can peruse the script/model/includes myself, but with that list I
could move them from high priority down to last in line.

>> To do that,
>> I have set a wget script loose on all of the pages that you linked to,
>> just downloading the whole directory structure to be sure I don't miss
>> any files. After that, I am going through all of the povray files:
>> scenes, scripts, includes, etc. Only the ones that have permission, in
>> the file or on the webpage, to be redistributed will be.
>>
> 
> Ok. That sounds good to me. Does your list include the sites on the
> 'tutorial' list and the 'utilities and plugins' list?
> 
> Regards,
> Chris B.
> 
Yes, I can add those sites to the list. I a just running the page
through sed and grep to pull all of the websites out, and feeding that
to a script, so if some website does not start with
http://something.geocities.com/ then I may miss it. Otherwise, no
problem. The only slow down has been Geocities throwing me HTTP 503
errors. I think wget was hitting the pages too quickly, so I was finding
several pieces missing. I finally found the command to slow it down, and
have it trawling at a slower speed now with no problems. Should be done
with local copies by this evening for the priority pages, can then focus
on the non-priority ones.

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