MIR

OldBodyOldSoul

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MIR has been up and down recently. Sometimes only certain pages would be inaccessible and sometimes every click would produce an error. Hopefully it's just maintenance.
 

AgX

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It would be a pity if that site went down.

The first address for information on certain camera models (as for instance Canon A and T series).
 

Poisson Du Jour

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The authors haven't really got an interest in maintaining the site. The analogue camera resource, and everybody would agree it is hugely informative if technically quite deep and a little grammatically akimbo, was a spin-off prior to starting their now quite large and expansive internet company — they are really, really busy people. I worked on the EOS 1N-series resource, moderated the message board and vetted submissions; everything took a long, long time to get done (communication was poor and very untimely). I left years ago (2005 I think) yet I still get message posts directed at me!
 

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I'm considering mirroring it myself. I've seen it go down before and I started getting the bad feelings then.
 

Trask

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What does mirroring mean in this context? And does that mean that the content of Mir would be available to you, as an individual, or to others via a website your own/manage?
 

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Mirroring using wget (a unix utility) such that I'd have a local backup in case push came to shove and it needed to be rehosted somehow. I don't trust the Internet Archive because a: it's incredibly slow, b: it's spotty in coverage.
 
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