Re: Thanks for this.

[andrej.bauer@andrej.com]

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The Internet Acrhive has Marta’s web page archived at

https://web.archive.org/web/20220703134737/http://www.math.mcgill.ca/bunge/<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/6ES_CxngGkf8EOpKHw-q_W?domain=web.archive.org>

I checked to see if they capture PDFs as well, and they do, see

https://web.archive.org/web/20230705214848/https://www.math.mcgill.ca/barr/<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Q3PXCyoj8PuDOnGEiN3lFH?domain=web.archive.org>

As for the costs, it’s not the storage that costs money but people who take care of systems and keep them up to date. They need to plug security holes, for which they need to update the operating systems, which triggers web server udpates, which triggers incomaptibilities with old pages, etc.

I do think it’s stupid for academic institutions to delete people’s web pages. It’s analogous to throwing all the books and notes written by a person on a pile in front of the department and burning them, except less ceremonial.

With kind regards,

Andrej

> On 23 Oct 2023, at 17:56, Michael Barr, Prof. <barr.michael@mcgill.ca> wrote:
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> Partly, I am responding to this to train my mailer, but also some information.
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> 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/ZfrYCzvkmpfDWLXviwlzW-?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.
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> Any idea why Mount Alison shut down the list? Computer storage is so cheap these days it hardly seems worth the effort.
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> Michael
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