Using This Web Site

These hints might help you find your way around the mate­ri­als quickly and easily.

If you have a ques­tion not cov­ered here, please con­tact Spit­fire List.

If you know the pro­gram num­ber, don’t bother search­ing for it!

To view a ‘For The Record’ arti­cle by pro­gram num­ber, the orig­i­nal 1990s nam­ing for­mula for URLs still works.

Some exam­ples:

http://spitfirelist.com/f003.html
http://spitfirelist.com/f035.html
http://spitfirelist.com/f350.html

You can even leave off the “.html” and the redi­rect still works.

http://spitfirelist.com/f003
http://spitfirelist.com/f035
http://spitfirelist.com/f350

Other cat­e­gories:

The Guns of Novem­ber: http://spitfirelist.com/guns2.html
Anti-fascist Archives (for­merly RFA, Radio Free Amer­ica): http://spitfirelist.com/afa2.html
Mis­cel­la­neous Archives: http://spitfirelist.com/misc2.html
Lec­tures: http://spitfirelist.com/l2.html (That’s a lower case “L” in there.)

There are thou­sands of links on other sites to arti­cles on Spit­fireList using these old URLs, so it was a con­scious deci­sion to pre­serve them.

Brows­ing Archives

On the Home page, archives for each cat­e­gory are view­able by select­ing the appro­pri­ate name under the pull-down menu labeled “Departments.”

(FTR archives can also be viewed by click­ing the main nav “Posts” link.)

Search­ing within Categories

In a cat­e­gory archive, there is a “Search this cat­e­gory” field in the right sidebar.

This cat­e­gory search is a great new tool.

Audio archive pages

Those long lists of audio links were auto-generated, and then clumped into groups when the big MP3 archive was gen­er­ously made avail­able by KFJC.

We are still in the process of inte­grat­ing indi­vid­ual MP3 audio links into each indi­vid­ual post. This is slow going, which is one rea­son the admit­tedly cum­ber­some audio archive pages are there to compensate.

Flash Audio vs RealAudio

In July, 2009, the mak­ing of new RealAu­dio archives was dis­con­tin­ued by WFMU, but they con­tinue to host RealAu­dio streams for a large num­ber of past Dave Emory programs.

The Flash Audio pop-up is also a WFMU cre­ation, replac­ing the RealAu­dio method. These archives are of much bet­ter qual­ity than RealAu­dio and even MP3, but require the Flash plu­gin for your browser.