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Email Gateway (Nov 01 2023 at 11:05):From: JS Lemay <js.lemay@mq.edu.au>
From: Dusko Pavlovic <duskgoo@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 10:08:43 PM (UTC+10:00) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
To: Michael Barr, Prof. <barr.michael@mcgill.ca>
Cc: Categories mailing list <categories@mq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Thanks for this.
Hi Mike,
I tried to save your site on https://archive.ph/<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1zR5CGv0Z6fn4RgYiKl1P0?domain=archive.ph/>. Their mission is to preserve webpages.
Amazingly, though, while the page loads fine for me, archive is getting 404 from it! Universities tend to underpay their network engineers and end up with weird firewall policies. If anyone could simply save the whole web site, put it up on a private node for 30 min, and direct archive to it, archive will save it.
I wouldn't think that the chairman not responding necessarily means that there is a policy about removing people's webpages. All network engineers were someone's students, just like our students often become someone's network engineers. After a while, when it becomes clear that the network is living its life out of anyone's control, the chairpeople give up trying to answer such questions.
I try to remember what the mathematician said in the first Jurassic Park movie: "Nature will find the way."
:)
-- dusko
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 10:10 AM Michael Barr, Prof. <barr.michael@mcgill.ca<mailto:barr.michael@mcgill.ca>> wrote:
Partly, I am responding to this to train my mailer, but also some information.
After Marta Bunge her web site disappeared. I wrote to our chairman a month ago asking if this was department policy and would mine disappear when I did. He has not bothered to respond so I guess I know the answer. The site is math.mcgill.ca/barr<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/4s6MCK1DOrCKWNJET3dnMc?domain=math.mcgill.ca> and it contains essentially all my published papers and books including the two with Charles. There is one new thing added: my original thesis, retyped. It is really mainly of historical interest. The main result is the direct construction of the shuffle idempotents in dimensions 2,3,4. Since a later paper found an inductive definition for all n, this is probably not interesting.
Any idea why Mount Alison shut down the list? Computer storage is so cheap these days it hardly seems worth the effort.
Michael
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Email Gateway (Nov 01 2023 at 21:08):From: JS Lemay <js.lemay@mq.edu.au>
From: Kevin Arlin <kevin@topos.institute>
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2023 3:03:29 AM (UTC+10:00) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
To: Michael Barr, Prof. <barr.michael@mcgill.ca>
Cc: Categories mailing list <categories@mq.edu.au>; duskgoo <duskgoo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Thanks for this.
Hi Mike,
Happy to report that your site is safely archived on the Wayback Machine, as seen here: https://web.archive.org/web/20231101160028/https://www.math.mcgill.ca/barr/<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nP6pCoV1Y2S91p2Di1iQ7D?domain=web.archive.org/>
Your retyped thesis seems to have been uploaded recently and was missing but I was able to request a fresh capture of the site to day and it’s now present.
I think Dusko’s archive may have been into an issue with McGill math changing their domain name; it seems unreliable to get to the old domain where your site is hosted.
Best,
Kevin Arlin
On Oct 31, 2023, at 4:08 AM, Dusko Pavlovic <duskgoo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Mike,
I tried to save your site on https://archive.ph/<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ny8wCp81gYCkJE49iDS6nF?domain=archive.ph/>. Their mission is to preserve webpages.
Amazingly, though, while the page loads fine for me, archive is getting 404 from it! Universities tend to underpay their network engineers and end up with weird firewall policies. If anyone could simply save the whole web site, put it up on a private node for 30 min, and direct archive to it, archive will save it.
I wouldn't think that the chairman not responding necessarily means that there is a policy about removing people's webpages. All network engineers were someone's students, just like our students often become someone's network engineers. After a while, when it becomes clear that the network is living its life out of anyone's control, the chairpeople give up trying to answer such questions.
I try to remember what the mathematician said in the first Jurassic Park movie: "Nature will find the way."
:)
-- dusko
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 10:10 AM Michael Barr, Prof. <barr.michael@mcgill.ca<mailto:barr.michael@mcgill.ca>> wrote:
Partly, I am responding to this to train my mailer, but also some information.
After Marta Bunge her web site disappeared. I wrote to our chairman a month ago asking if this was department policy and would mine disappear when I did. He has not bothered to respond so I guess I know the answer. The site is math.mcgill.ca/barr<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/sjJHCr810kCMz3QrCyIwSD?domain=math.mcgill.ca> and it contains essentially all my published papers and books including the two with Charles. There is one new thing added: my original thesis, retyped. It is really mainly of historical interest. The main result is the direct construction of the shuffle idempotents in dimensions 2,3,4. Since a later paper found an inductive definition for all n, this is probably not interesting.
Any idea why Mount Alison shut down the list? Computer storage is so cheap these days it hardly seems worth the effort.
Michael
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Email Gateway (Nov 01 2023 at 21:09):Hi Mike,
Happy to report that your site is safely archived on the Wayback Machine, as seen here: https://web.archive.org/web/20231101160028/https://www.math.mcgill.ca/barr/<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nP6pCoV1Y2S91p2Di1iQ7D?domain=web.archive.org/>
Your retyped thesis seems to have been uploaded recently and was missing but I was able to request a fresh capture of the site to day and it’s now present.
I think Dusko’s archive may have been into an issue with McGill math changing their domain name; it seems unreliable to get to the old domain where your site is hosted.
Best,
Kevin Arlin
Email Gateway (Nov 07 2023 at 19:47):Most of the references listed at
are now also listed at
together with links, where available, to DOIs,
free repositories (such as JSTOR or TAC),
and/or local copies of the pdfs mirrored on the nLab.
Also included are further links for keywords, coauthors, etc.