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Re: Missing relays

From:Nomad of Norad -- David C Hall <nomad-conlang@...>
Date:Monday, January 9, 2006, 16:42
Hi taliesin (taliesin the storyteller), in <20060109112022.GA32619@...> on Jan 9 you wrote:

> Both relay 2 (Sally Caves' Bast-text) and 3 (Nicole Perrin's Bliss of a > Fairy) are gone from the net. The latter is completely gone but the > former at least has the order of participants online: > > hhttp://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/bastrelay2.html > > * Does anyone have a copy of the entries?
Have you tried checking Wayback for it? http://www.archive.org Plug the desired URL into the field in the Web rectangle near the top of the page. Or better yet, get the Firefox extension called Methusalem: http://murk.34sp.com/o/methusalem/ It takes the place of the Wayback extension, which broke under Firefox version 1.5. With this, you can just right-click the broken link on a page and select Wayback [This] Link, and it will take you to the Wayback service's copy of that page, without you having to manually copy-and-paste it into that field at their front page. Assuming they archived the given page, that is...
> * Might it be an idea to have a common "safe house" for all relays so > that they won't be lost in the future?
Probably a good idea. Do some kind of automatic mirroring, perhaps.
> t.
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