<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I have in numerous occasions asked the dove trustees for archive information from the dove database, and have been presented it without question. Information which pre-dates the creation of the online database would (of course) be harder to obtain.<div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Matthew<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 4 Jul 2020, at 22:36, Carl S Zimmerman <csz_stl@swbell.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydpbb699b16yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Excellent point, Richard!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">For my TowerBells Website, I can reconstruct any page that was ever visible to the public. Although I have never yet had a call to do so, the archive exists, because lost information cannot be reconstructed. (It has on occasion proved useful for backup & recovery purposes.)<br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydpbb699b16signature"><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Carl Scott Zimmerman, Campanologist <br>Webmaster for www.TowerBells.org<br><br></div></div></div>
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On Saturday, July 4, 2020, 1:41:49 PM CDT, Richard Johnston <johnstonrh@rhj.org.uk> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">> The ongoing evolution of Dove online<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Whilst understanding the need to avoid mission creep, the thing I <br></div><div dir="ltr">discovered some years ago was that Dove was only retaining current <br></div><div dir="ltr">information, so when a recasting happened the info about the former <br></div><div dir="ltr">installation was simply dropped, and as I was led to understand, not <br></div><div dir="ltr">even retained as archive copies.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I was told it I wanted older info, I would have to resort to the <br></div><div dir="ltr">published bookcopies of Dove.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Whatever else happens, it must keep archive material.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Richard Johnston<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">Bell-historians mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians</a><br></div></div>
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