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The Flat Earth Society => Suggestions & Concerns => Topic started by: Thork on December 09, 2013, 07:44:53 PM

Title: Hosting earth not a globe
Post by: Thork on December 09, 2013, 07:44:53 PM
I feel we should host a copy of this as its our number one source and rather than keep directing people away from the site, it'd be nice to have it here.

Is this possible?
Title: Re: Hosting earth not a globe
Post by: xasop on December 09, 2013, 07:52:29 PM
http://library.tfes.org/library/samuel_rowbotham_-_earth_not_a_globe.pdf
Title: Re: Hosting earth not a globe
Post by: Thork on December 09, 2013, 07:54:42 PM
http://library.tfes.org/library/samuel_rowbotham_-_earth_not_a_globe.pdf

can you do a clever thing where if people type 'earth not a globe' or 'ENaG' it hyperlinks to that source automatically?
Title: Re: Hosting earth not a globe
Post by: Hoppy on December 09, 2013, 08:12:19 PM
http://library.tfes.org/library/samuel_rowbotham_-_earth_not_a_globe.pdf
Can you post the link on the home page? Just for ease of finding ENaG link. Also this other link is not a PDF, shorter download time, and easier to use.
            http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/index.htm
Title: Re: Hosting earth not a globe
Post by: Thork on December 09, 2013, 08:23:30 PM
http://library.tfes.org/library/samuel_rowbotham_-_earth_not_a_globe.pdf
Can you post the link on the home page? Just for ease of finding ENaG link. Also this other link is not a PDF, shorter download time, and easier to use.
            http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/index.htm
Honestly I'd rather have something liek that, but the guys are so busy, its not a priority.
Title: Re: Hosting earth not a globe
Post by: markjo on December 09, 2013, 08:47:51 PM
http://library.tfes.org/library/samuel_rowbotham_-_earth_not_a_globe.pdf
Can you post the link on the home page? Just for ease of finding ENaG link. Also this other link is not a PDF, shorter download time, and easier to use.
            http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/index.htm
Honestly I'd rather have something liek that, but the guys are so busy, its not a priority.
If you're going to do something like that, then perhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea (as a long term project) to host as much FE literature as you can find in a FE Library section.  I'm sure Daniel wouldn't mind if someone rips off grabs a copy of some of his collection.
Title: Re: Hosting earth not a globe
Post by: Tom Bishop on December 09, 2013, 10:16:43 PM
http://library.tfes.org/library/samuel_rowbotham_-_earth_not_a_globe.pdf
Can you post the link on the home page? Just for ease of finding ENaG link. Also this other link is not a PDF, shorter download time, and easier to use.
            http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/index.htm
Honestly I'd rather have something liek that, but the guys are so busy, its not a priority.

There are programs which can rip a website, such as the HTTrack Website Copier (http://www.httrack.com/).

It would be a matter of someone ripping that website and uploading the files to a new directory on the github repository and putting a link in the cms. Eventually Parsifal would publish it. This isn't something which can't be done by us.
Title: Re: Hosting earth not a globe
Post by: Pete Svarrior on December 09, 2013, 10:29:22 PM
I think the best course of action would be to put it up on the Wiki (as actual Wiki pages instead of links). That way it would be easily-navigable and well-integrated with the rest of the site.