Re: Old archives

I'm about to put up the older archives. The files are pretty garbled but
the vast majority is readable from what I've skimmed. However, the
messages don't really seem to be in chronological order, but it look's
like they date back to about June of 1991. I don't really know how or if
it's possible to restore the unreadable parts. In any case, you guys can
take a look at if you like. Here's the site again:

http://students.washington.edu/jamesw

By the way, I was just curious when Conlang started and who started
it. Does anyone remember? I know there's some people who have been here
for quite a while if not since the beginning. Anyone know who the oldest
current member is?

-James


On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> > Date:         Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:59:05 +0100
> > From:         taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>
> >
> > * Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> [010121 19:40]:
> > > The official archives were lost when the list moved from DIKU to
> > > Brown --- by the time David had the room to host them, they'd been
> > > deleted from the FTP server where I put them. And DIKU's backup system
> > > was broken at the time, so it was not possible to retrieve a copy.
> >
> > What about even older things?
>
> Well, I had John's archives of the buphy (and pre-buphy) list up,
> going back to June 1991, wasn't it? --- some of which were the ones
> with progressive tape controller damage. I did some massaging of part
> of John's archive to make it look like the Majordomo files --- perhaps
> only to make a complete 1993 set. The 9303 file is spliced for sure,
> Majordomo archiving starting on March 24.
>
> I though James W said he'd put the garbled files up too?
>
> Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)
>