Tim May <tcmay@got.net> writes:

At 1:44 AM -0700 9/4/98, Sparkes, Ian, ZFRD AC wrote:

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---- Facetious comment begin ----- At least now we know why people aren't following Tim's advice to 'check the archives' before putting their feet in their mouths. ---- Facetious comment end -----

Try http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/

If the archives at some sites are going down, this could be for various reasons.

Being an assembly of mostly-anarchist-leaning folks, with no leadership, no organization, no hierarchy, and no procedures, there are no officially maintained archives.

What we have are what people choose to put up.

Someone was talking in the last half year about burning a CD-ROM with a big chunk of the archives on it. I haven't heard if this ever happened and if it was made available for sale. (It seems that about every year someone launches a project to generate such a CD-ROM, but I haven't seen the followthrough.)

--Tim May

I had an archive on sof.mit.edu, but shortly after I left Boston, MA, US where the machine is located, the HDD on the machine (or the controller) died, and I'm still trying to get one of my former housemates to repair it. I'm currently in the wrong country to fix the drive, and don't expect to be back. I prepared the CD-ROMs for sale (I had a CD-R on the machine), and posted several times offering to sell them, but no one ever actually sent me the money. Actually, a small number of people did, and I sold them, but I don't remember who they were. I also don't have particularly good backups of that machine. I think someone mirrored it at toad.com before it died, so they're probably not lost forever. I don't have a machine with free bandwidth from which to host it, though, until sof.mit.edu is back on the net. I may be sending the HDD out to a drive recovery company anyway for the other data on the drive. This was an amateurish hobby server of mine, and not a production-grade service, so people shouldn't complain too much that I didn't invest the money in quality replication. -- Ryan Lackey rdl@mit.edu http://sof.mit.edu/rdl/