[Dixielandjazz] More information about the Red Hot Jazz Archive

[Bob Smith]

I've just received this E-mail from Patrice Champarou:

"Hello, Bob - or rather, if you like, the Dixielandjazz group C/O Bob Smith

I have had to stay away from this job for a short while, and will resume 
soon.
As a mere parenthesis, mp3's did exist at the time Scott started his 
website, but the compression used to result in such a poor sound that 
realaudio was, I think, a better choice - at a time most of us used to 
connect with these noisy 56k modems and even, in some countries, pay 
according to the time spent online.

That said, your careful investigations - which confirm my own results while 
looking back at the files I managed to "grab" from the RHJ Archives - do not 
allow me to see any "logics" in the observation of the removed, or vanished 
files. They may have been moved, or corrupted, and still exist somewhere on 
the unattended server. If the extensive incident was linked to copyright 
reasons (and Scott was indeed concerned with these, he declined my offer 
regarding the 1947 recordings of Django and the ATC Band after I had filled 
in the page), I do not see any reason why the All Star Trio thoroughly 
vanished - their recordings are not only public domain, but also available 
from several websites, from archive.org to the Library of Congress 
"jukebox", and also the great Victor discography by the University of 
Califormia.

I will try to find the address of this group later on because, although I 
really do not have time just now, I am also interested in technical problems 
encountered by users of different systems and software - but one thing is 
100% sure : the 404 error has nothing to do with anyone's configuration, it 
is a faithful reply sent by the server to the request of a non-existing page 
or file, or the indication of a faulty link.

Best regards,

Patrice"

Regards

Bob Smith