Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00342)

Hi Erica,

Thanks for your suggestions to me and others. I'm sure it will all be
technically worked out OK with THE THEOSOPHY COMPANY and my site. The
thing I was most worried about, and that I didn't mention in my first
message about this here, and which will be covered by THE THEOSOPHY
COMPANY with my site, as we spoke about it, was how so very important it
is for the following things to be addressed by everyone inheriting a
theosophical web site from someone else:

Making sure to also inherit the same web site address, and not just get
copies of the pages and articles on disks and/or back-up copies on
things like iomega zip drives, etc., so that none of the URL web
addresses of any of the pages on it have to be in any way changed. Why?
So that all of the web sites, home pages, blogs, or messages on talk
forums in the world that have links to the main page (or any page), as
well as all of the many thousands of people who have the home page of
the web site bookmarked (or any pages on it), or all of the e-mails that
people have in their folders which contain links to any page or article
on the site. If the original site's address is canceled (such as my
WisdomWorld.org) and the home page as well as each index page and
article needs a new address because the old one was canceled, all those
many long-standing links that people have that are clicked on to get to
pages on the old site will just take people to some kind of a "Not
Found" page.

THE THEOSOPHY COMPANY said that they understand and will do something
like this: Move my web site with everything on it from my host provider
to their host provider -- meaning all of my WisdomWorld.org stuff will
be available from links on their theosophycompany.org web site, because
they will own and control the WisdomWorld.org address. This will mean
that all of the pages that they want to use will still have the same
WisdomWorld.org addresses (right now I have over 1,500 different pages
-- counting all of the articles and the various index pages to them), so
that no one, from anywhere in the world, who clicks on any old link to
any page on the WisdomWorld.org web site, will not have lost access to
the page because it has a whole new address, no matter how major or
minor the change may have been in the handover, if I'm not mistaken.

Sorry for being so longwinded and not so sharp in trying to explain this
important subject. I do hope that what I have offered is somewhat
helpful to some folks and organizations with web sites.

Fraternally,

John DeSantis
(Compiler)
http://www.wisdomworld.org
http://www.wisdomworld.org/setting.html
http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/index.html
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Erica Letzerich wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> You really have done a very interesting work that can't, and will be
> not lost! I am sure many fellows here with web sites are going to
> give you suggestions and I have one.
>
> It's possible and very easy to organize a CD with all the material
> you have in the site. You should send a copy of this, for many
> branches connected to theosophy.
>
> Another solution is to find a free web hosting and also to organize
> may be with Daniel or other fellow to become the web master of the
> site.
>
> Erica Letzerich
>
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Compiler <compiler@w...> wrote:
> > Hi Daniel (and everyone else with theosophical web sites),
> >
> > Since this may be an important subject for each of us with
> theosophical
> > web sites to consider, I want to share these ideas with you folks
> just
> > in case all or some of you haven't yet considered the various
> > possibilities:
> >
> > I've been thinking lately about what might or could happen to my
> > WisdomWorld.org web site if I died tomorrow and I hadn't already
> made
> > arrangements with THE THEOSOPHY COMPANY, the publisher of all the
> > articles on my site, or with some other theosophist or theosophical
> > organization. I could be wrong, but I was thinking about a worst
> case
> > scenario such as what would happen to it if all of a sudden my host
> > provider for the site stopped getting paid. Would this commercial
> > company after a few months of non-payment, and no one to call or
> write
> > to in order to let them know this, so that they could either
> continue to
> > pay the bills and keep it running, or pay the back bills and then
> > somehow technically make the arrangements to move all of the
> contents to
> > their own site and host provider, simply delete all of the
> contents and
> > shut it down so that no one had any more access to the articles and
> > ideas on it?
> >
> > Because of this I recently called THE THEOSOPHY COMPANY and began a
> > discussion about how to go about making sure that all of the
> articles on
> > my WisdomWorld.org web site get to be owned, used, and presented to
> > humanity by them if I suddenly died.
> >
> > Daniel, I just wanted to share this with you and others, as food
> for
> > thought and for whatever it may be worth, in order to make sure
> that
> > none of the very important contents of our various theosophical web
> > sites disappear off the face of the earth shortly after we die and
> move
> > on because we hadn't made any arrangements to make sure this
> doesn't
> > happen.
> >
> > Fraternally,
> >
> > John DeSantis
> > (Compiler)
> > http://www.wisdomworld.org
> > http://www.wisdomworld.org/setting.html
> > http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/index.html
> > -------
> >
> > "Daniel H. Caldwell" wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks to everyone who commented on our webpage
> > > at:
> > >
> > > http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/hpblinks.htm
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > http://www.theosophy.info/hpblinks.htm
> > >
> > > To Morten:
> > >
> > > I will reply to some of your suggestions
> > > in the next day or so.
> > >
> > > Daniel