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This article is from the Dance FAQ, by
eijkhout@jacobi.math.ucla.edu (Victor Eijkhout) with numerous
contributions by others.
2.8 Does anyone archive this group?
The answer to this question takes several forms. There is an archive
that contains many past discussion threads, often requested
information, and lots of other goodies. Here is a description, in the
words of Eileen Bauer ecb@world.std.com , the archive maintainer.
**Dancers' Archive**
The Dancers' Archive is an international listing of dance studios,
places to dance, teachers, books, videos, dance clubs/societies,
newsletters, magazines and whatever papers/FAQs on dance that can be
made available electronically.
The Dancers' Archive lists info about all types of dance, but here are
the most requested goodies:
Names and addresses of dance magazines:
ftp://ftp.std.com/customers/nonprofits/dance/magazines/
.
Lists and reviews of dance videos:
ftp://ftp.std.com/customers/nonprofits/dance/videos/
.
Lists of dance music:
ftp://ftp.std.com/customers/nonprofits/dance/music/
.
Lists of country line dance steps:
ftp://ftp.std.com/customers/nonprofits/dance/CW-dance/dancesteps/
.
The URL for the Dancers' Archive is, as you may have gathered:
ftp://ftp.std.com/customers/nonprofits/dance/
.
This means: make an ftp connection to ftp.std.com (log in as
anonymous, use your login name as password), and go to the
customers/nonprofits/dance subdirectory. You will find a number of
subdirectories with dance-related info.
In the words of Eileen Bauer (ecb@world.std.com), the archive
maintainer:
I expect that eventually the Archive will list at least 50 countries'
dance information to some degree. See the readme.txt file for
restrictions on the amount of data I can enter and store, and the
intended audience.
The name "Dancers' Archive" was chosen to indicate that the intended
users of this service are those who are actively dancing, rather than
historians interested in dance. However, the book and video sections of
the service might very well be useful to amateur dance historians.
The Dancers' Archive is a service provided by me in my spare time, and
which depends on the contributions of information from fellow dancers.
Especially those on the net.
To access Dancers' Archive, do an anonymous FTP to ftp.std.com.
Gopher servers exist that (among other things) access the Archive:
gopher gopher.std.com
and wander down the nonprofit menus until you get to Dancers' Archive
or
gopher psulias.psu.edu
Your Gopher Client may connect to the server on port 70
@psulias.psu.edu, and wander down the menus:
The Electronic Bookshelf (this way to our Gopher)/ to Subject Shelf/
to Fine Arts Shelf/ to The Dancers' Archive (aFTP gateway)/
(You may also note other relevant materials on the Fine Arts Shelf,
such as Dance Catalog (New York Public Library) and Music.)
Other Gopher Servers are invited to also provide similar gateways to
reduce traffic @psulias.psu.edu.
The server at: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com accepts "batch" ftp requests and
returns the requested files via internet mail. It can be used by
_anyone_ no matter where they are. See section (6.3) .
To get a list of commands and some information about this service:
specify 'help' w/o the quotes as the ftp command. This information is
returned in an hour or two.
To use this service for the Archive, specify whatever you want for the
subject (I usually say request 1, request 2, etc so I can match the
replies to my requests) Sample text is as follows:
connect ftp.std.com
cd /ftp/nonprofits/dance/whatever
get filename.txt dir
quit
* end of text *
would go the anonymous ftp to the Archive site, (don't worry about id
or password) change your directory to the Archive directory whatever
(which actually doesn't exist), get a file named filename.txt, do a
directory list, and then quit. Only one directory change allowed per
email.
It may take one week or more to get the results back via email. For
this reason, always do a 'dir' no matter what else you are doing,
because you may be interested in data in that directory later on. If
you are not sure of the name of the file you want (and sometimes I
misspell names that I mention) make several requests with the most
likeliest names/spellings.
For FTP, login as anonymous with the Password being your id/location
(ex: ecb@world.std.com) Go to directory /ftp/nonprofits/dance. Here you
will find the file readme.txt, and perhaps a couple of other general
files and several directories of regions and countries (europa, asia,
americas (North, Central, and South), etc) and topics (/swing, /tango,
/topics etc)
Some of the current directories are: /books, /videos, and
/americas/usa. Other countries are also represented either by name (in
separate directories under /dance) or by name within region (ex:
/asia/australia). Books and videos need no explanation; /usa itself
contains directories for each state in the U.S., Washington D.C.,
Puerto Rico, and other parts of the U.S. The information included under
these directories are studios, discos, nightclubs, dance supply stores,
anything relating to dance that is limited by geographic area. Each
state directory will eventually contain a /newsltrs directory, a
comments.txt file, and will be broken down also into files by
geographic area. Other standard file names are: allofit.txt
restofit.txt mostofit.txt someofit.txt organizations.txt
Other countries may be broken down by territory/province/etc as
required.
If you want to contribute information to this service, please send me
Postal or electronic mail. I can be reached at " ecb@world.std.com "
through INTERNET. Email me to get my Postal mail address. Questions and
suggestions are always welcome, but I may not be able to reply quickly.
See the readme.txt file for the bulk of the disclaimer, but I reserve
the right to edit and/or refuse any information for this service if I
think it is not appropriate or if I feel like it. This service attempts
to be an unbiased source and advocate for all dancers; however, it is
possible to get excluded from this service (that is, getting listed
here) for actions considered unethical, illegal, and otherwise against
the best interest of dancers.
**Deja-News and Alta Vista**
Old newsgroup posting for (practically) all newsgroups are kept at the
following location:
http://dejanews.com/
. A similar site is Alta Vista
http://www.altavista.digital.com/
which in addition can do a keyword search on web pages.
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