Re: Old archives

> Date:         Sun, 21 Jan 2001 03:14:29 -0800
> From:         "J. Wells" <jamesw@...>
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I was just going through some of my old disks and found some old conlang
> archives that I grabbed before conlang switched servers so long ago. I'm
> not sure if they're easy accessible elsewhere, so I just thought I'd let
> everyone know that I've got some of ther older archives that aren't
> available on egroups as far as I know. I think I've got the archives from
> about January of '93 to about half way through '96 if anyone was
> interested in looking at them. I've actually got some older ones too,
> although some of the formatting is a little messed up and some of it's
> hard to read.
>
> The archives may be available somewhere else that I haven't heard about
> yet. I haven't been able to keep up with all of the messages lately so
> maybe this has already been discussed. Anyway, if there's any interest,
> maybe I or someone else could set the archives up somewhere. If anyone's
> interested just let me know. Talk to ya' later.
>
> -james w.
>
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.

The older damaged archives are probably the ones I got off John Cowan
--- they'd suffered bit damage while compressed, which is why they
become increasingly garbled.

So, anyway --- your archives are probably valuable. Taliesin is
hosting a searchable threaded message archive --- whose URL escapes me
right now --- and seems to be the one who knows most about what's
available elsewhere.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)