Getting out of the hobby

[jim stephens]

See my posting for reconstructing from the archive.org listings. There 
are a couple of points I found that can be used to get all of the 
messages from 1997 thru 2016

The other thing that needs to be done with the archive.org snapshots, 
since it captured them, is to get the timestamped 1970 thru 1988 and the 
like messages renamed to the proper years.  the thread information and 
time stamps are in those messages to figure out what the proper time 
would have been for them to be there.

There are a number of 1970 postings, which clearly were sent with 0 time 
stamp values, and accepted by the mailing agent and archived with the 
1970 time frame.  They are not all the same in each snapshot.

Appreciate your capture of these.

thanks
Jim

On 10/14/2016 7:08 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>      > From: Richard Schauer
>
>      > My message to him, which I did save, is dated the evening of March 12,
>      > 1997, and I seem to recall the list started a couple of days later.
>
> OK, so the 'unofficial' early archives which I'm hosting:
>
>    http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/cctalk/
>
> do go back that far, so it doesn't look like we're missing much. The earliest
> ones there are from 13 March 1997, so we may be missing a few, but not many;
> the first posts are clearly 'hi, here's who am I' kind of things, apparently
> in response to an earlier message, which does alas seem to be missing.
>
> I scanned down the list, looking for names I recognized, and found this:
>
>    http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/cctalk/1997-March/0070.html
>
> which seems like it must be someone's very first post to this list!! :-)
>
>
> I do have the 'missing' archives (i.e. between Feburary 2005 and November
> 2014) in mail archive format, and once I figure out how to run Hypermail (this
> has been on my to-do list since last September, maybe I'll take a run at it
> today), I'll add them to the unofficial archives.
>
> Once done, it may take Google a few days to index them, but once that's done,
> it should be possible to search for content again.
>
> 	Noel
>
>