[FFML] Old archives question

[The Wanderer]

On 2015-09-24 at 19:17, Bob Schroeck wrote:

> Mike Schilling wrote:
> 
>> A question for the old-timers: I think I remember a server crash
>> several years back, and now it seems that the archives online only
>> go back to mid-2007. Is that right, or are there older records
>> kicking around somewhere I can't find? (Trying to re-read a few old
>> Ranma fics that, if I remember right, were posted in the 1998-2000
>> range. It's not that long ago, right? Really?)
> 
> As usual these days, I'm slow on the uptake with the ML, so I'm just
> going to reply to the first message in the thread rather than find an
> appropriate one later in the cascade that followed.
> 
> I have about 200 Mb of fanfic, mixed plaintext and zip archives, 
> dating back at least to 1996 (at least that was the earliest I 
> spotted in an admittedly hasty look-thru), fairly complete up to 
> about 2007 and kind of random after that.  I even have most of it
> organized by fandom and story (I had much more free time on my hands
> about ten years ago).  It probably isn't a complete archive of the
> FFML -- as I recall I only saved stuff that caught my interest -- but
> I'd be willing to package it up for anyone who wanted it, or dig
> through it to see if I have missing parts of stories for people who
> need them.

I have virtually every message that has come through the FFML since its
June 17th, 2001 revival; about the only exceptions are duplicates and
spam. (I don't usually delete E-mail, pretty much at all.) It totals
something like 400MB - possibly including the results of compression -
though a _lot_ of that is probably replies rather than actual fic.

It's in the form of a set of subfolders under a Thunderbird mail
profile, so it's not ideally suitable for extracting and making
available en masse - but if someone wants a particular story that came
through the FFML in that timeframe and can provide enough information
for me to track it down in that archive, I'd probably be willing to send
it along.

For that matter, if someone knows of a sufficiently practical way of
pulling those folders out into a shareable form, I might be willing to
do that as well. (As a one-time hand-off, not as a permanent thing; I
don't have the project capacity to set up or maintain a long-term share.)

I also have the PMFFML from May through July of 2001, from when I
subscribed there before the June revival, and Sofaspud's Couch from
April 2001 through February 2005 (which may be when that list expired);
the same applies there.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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