Disk archival techniques // DEAD MEDIA PROJECT

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Al Kossow wrote: I'm nominally in charge of it. It's looking for a willing victim, two people on this list expressed interest, I gave them both edged weapons, but I see no blood resulting from the intended fight over it. The Dead Media Project is in two parts; the visible part is the web archive. The less visible was the mailing list, that generated the content. The list has died (any puns thereof so overworked as to be unmentionable) and needs decision whether or not it's desirable, or possible, to revive it. There is some abysmal tech to convert emailed Notes into documents. There's an ad hoc database of Notes from which said abysmal perl code generates html. The website part is trivial, and done, if there is no list to drive it. It's in no more danger of lossage or decline than any other website. So there's no glory to be had, and a lot of work. True masochists only need apply (eg. you've flogged yourself before, and will do so for at least a year, say). http://www.deadmedia.org