[FFML] Old archives question

Ignacio Moreno kinai2k7 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 27 08:53:11 PDT 2015 

I am not an expert in archive or mailing lists, but I think that it's
clearly an error. Probably the program couldn't read or misread a variable
and, when trying to interpret it, it give a nonsense date.

Greetings.

Kinai.

2015-09-27 13:33 GMT+02:00 William Lathan <zoomorph at gmail.com>:

> I noticed something strange while going through it.  Some of the posts have
> very old dates on them, with the oldest being 1970.  Is this some sort of
> error in parsing the archive data?  I have noticed the these older posts
> don't seem to make much sense chronologically, while posts with the year of
> 1995 tend to be organized more correctly (i.e., mostly "testing" messages.)
>
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Andrew Painter <a_painter at mac.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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