Dear All,
Since the people on the bhaskar list expressed interest in the reading
of _The Order of Things_, and consequently in the foucault archive,
I cleaned up the archive a bit, and it should now be reasonably
usable. I thought it might be good to explain on both lists how to
access the archive, so here goes.
There are several ways to access the archive. One is from the Spoon home page,
whose URL is
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons.
Another is through the majordomo command "get". In this method, you obtain
selected files by sending commands to the following address:
majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(NOT to this list!)
First, send the message
index foucault
to find out what files are available and what their full path names are.
Then send the message
get foucault FILENAME
for every file you'd like to look at, where FILENAME includes the name of
the directory the given file is in, as returned from the "index" command
(e.g. "get foucault foucault_1995/f_Dec.95.ind").
Another way is through anonymous ftp from jefferson.village.virginia.edu.
The directory is pub/pubs/listservs/spoons/foucault.archive.
The archive is divided into subdirectories by year. The individual files
contain up to a month's worth of posts. For each individual file containing
the actual posts, there is a ".ind" file which contains a table of contents.
If you're accessing the archive via e-mail to majordomo or via FTP,
the best way is to first get the ".ind" files for the given period, and
then decide, on the basis of the tables of contents, which actual
message-files you want.
The most recent posts are kept in the file "current" in the main directory.
Yours as always,
-malgosia