[FFML] Old archives question

[Ignacio Moreno]

This will be very useful.

Thanks.

Kinai.
El 27/9/2015 0:52, "Andrew Painter" <a_painter at mac.com> escribió:

> 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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