Where are the cctech archives before November 2014 ?

[js at cimmeri.com]

Just curious, what was the incident that happened?

- J.

On 10/12/2016 9:29 PM, Jay West wrote:
> Walter....
>
> I think you need to ask a few questions before you toss that kind of nonsense out.
>
> For your info - this is a hobby. It is done in spare time. The time period you speak of - the archives have NOT been lost. Because unlike what you intone - we do care. Those archives are safe and sound, just not in a publicly accessible format. One of our kind listmembers has been working for eons to reconstruct the publicly viewable content from them.
>
> I will tell him that you are going to volunteer to help him.
>
> J
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctech [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Walter F.J. Mueller
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 4:22 PM
> To: cctech at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Where are the cctech archives before November 2014 ?
>
> Hi,
>
> I detected that links I had to previous postings where invalid. Looking at
>
>     http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/
>
> I see that the archives before November 2014 are lost. When I look into the WayBackMachine I see
>
>     https://web.archive.org/web/20141025062159/http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/
>     https://web.archive.org/web/20150103042513/http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/
>
> that between October 25th. 2014 and January 3rd, 2015 some incident happened which wiped out the archives before November 2014.
>
> How comes that the 'classical computing' lost it's memory ??
>
>           With best regards,   Walter
>
> P.S.: It's a bit astonishing to me that a list like cctech, which is
>         in some ways about history, has lost it's own history, and even
>         doesn't seem to care about it.