[FFML] Old archives question

[Andrew Painter]

I have a searchable index of the FFML archive, over at www.sanjiyan.co.uk

Thanks,

Andy

On 25/09/2015 10:30, Ignacio Moreno wrote:
> Well.
>
> My idea was to look over all the old archives, extract all the fics, check
> if they are online yet and, if not, ask permission to the author to post
> them in ff and ao3 so we can conserve them in the same place.
>
> So, if anybody have any part of old stories, I would be glad if you can
> send it to me.
>
> It's going to be a long effort, but I think that it is needed and worth to
> make it.
>
> Greetings.
>
> Kinai.
> El 25/9/2015 15:59, "The Wanderer" <wanderer at fastmail.fm> escribió:
>
>> 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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