h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm interested in the 'Today' situation Peet, do you post on that board?

Here's probably not the place to discuss it, but if you'd like to discuss it come over to my page? I'd be interested in your views.

An Italic posts, but doesn't reveal the dark secret of Descartes' offensiveness.

Hi RFJS,

I honestly don't know the answer to the Descartes' question, as I left the h2g2 Editorial team a while back . The best person to ask about this would be Jimster, perhaps on the Editorial feedback page?

Okay; I'll tell him you sent me. Thanks.

I've just had a quick look, but it seems the edited version was more or less identical with the un-edited one. I used this site to see the edited version before it was hidden:

http://www.webarchive.org

That site seems to be down at the moment (I just get a blank page with "Done" in the status bar) but the same thing can be achieved at http://www.archive.org - perhaps they're the same site, but as the other address doesn't respond I can't tell.

It is the same site - webarchive is their internet section.

Clicking on the 'waybackmachine' on the archive front page will take you to the webarchive

A handy hint - in the early days they archived every file from a site up to about two levels deep (Nowadays they just archive HTML, text and images) so if you need a device driver for, say, a really old scanner and Driverguide.com doesn't have it, you can sometimes download the .EXE or .ZIP from the archived copy of the manufacturer's site long after the manufacturer went bust.

I've used the webarchive for going all nostalgic about what my and others' user pages used to look like pre-Rupert...

Ah, I used the Google Cache for that, before the "great flush"...

During Rupert I ran a Goo-themed Bulletin Board for stray researchers, and where possible I would reconstruct their personal space based on the Google cache to make them feel at home...

I remember that one - unfortunately the google cache of my page was the special and rather simple one I had made for Christmas and not my regular one... but you did a splendid work!

There are of course other ways of obtaining material than a website.

The entry was failed for too much reliance on the material of a third party. Said third party ntoified us of this and the entry was removed from the Edited Guide.

Thanks, Jimster!

Now all you need to do is fix that message about how "easily" the original author can alter an Edited Entry...

They can always write their own entry - which back then is what I guess the Editorial team had assumed they'd originally done. In the grand scale of things, that's fairly easy

Compared to alchemy, transsubstantiation and cancelling a readers Digest subscription, that is.

So now we know...

Perhaps, given that it can't be easily rewritten, the Entry should be removed from C28. In the meantime I'll post a link to this thread on the 'Why has this been hidden?' thread underneath it.

What so Hoovooloos entry on Making your own Pornography was failed becuase it was copied from elswhere? Ot have I mis-understood the context of what you just said Jim?

Not the Entry that started the thread; the Cartesian Dualism Entry still linked to by C28.

Hoovooloo's entry was removed from the Edited Guide because of concerns raised by BBC Editorial Policy, which was out of our hands. The entry I was addressing was removed for a different matter.