<div dir="auto"><div>If the archive is really needful, I'll be excited to see what Tapani can make out of what Devon and Deirdre have (for Deirdre's archive is quite a lot). Success in the project (as Devon rightly identified it) will be great and replicable in similar instances.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Happy New Year to all, too. In Nigeria, people ushered in the the new year with bonfire, fireworks, <span style="font-family:sans-serif">firecrackers, masquerading</span>, and New Year's Eve whoop-de-do. They are happy and full of positive expectations against the disappointments and difficulties of 2017.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 1, 2018 2:07 PM, "Arsène Tungali" <<a href="mailto:arsenebaguma@gmail.com" target="_blank">arsenebaguma@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_3084230154286369279m_3621988225084668917m_-6146197573225708807quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I think this is a great move in trying to recover archives of the IGC.<br>
<br>
@Tapani, can we consider you taking the lead on this? So anyone else<br>
who want to help can send you a line so you can collaborate?<br>
<br>
2018-01-01 10:49 UTC+02:00, Tapani Tarvainen <<a href="mailto:tapani.tarvainen@effi.org" target="_blank">tapani.tarvainen@effi.org</a>>:<br>
<div class="m_3084230154286369279m_3621988225084668917m_-6146197573225708807elided-text">> I have reconstructed Mailman archives out of messages collected from<br>
> sundry sources. It is doable, sometimes even easy, sometimes harder,<br>
> depending on various factors like whether you can get the messages<br>
> "raw" (including all headers) or if they're only in some webmail-only<br>
> things without even any download option other than cut'n'paste or<br>
> saving as html.<br>
><br>
> If people feel reconstructing the old list archives would be worthwhile,<br>
> I might give it a go. If you want to help in that and have a larg(ish)<br>
> part of the archive, drop me a line describing what you have, or actually<br>
> preferably just the headers of the *earliest* list message you have.<br>
><br>
> In any case,<br>
><br>
> Happy new year 2018 to all!<br>
><br>
> Tapani<br>
><br>
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 07:24:48PM -0400, Deirdre Williams<br>
> (<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com" target="_blank">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>) wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Good idea Devon - would it work?<br>
>> I also have a fairly large archive in my email going back to 2008 at<br>
>> least.<br>
>> Perhaps among us we can reconstitute a lot of what seems to be lost?<br>
>> Happy New Year - it gets here in about 5 hours :-)<br>
>> Deirdre<br>
>><br>
>> On 31 December 2017 at 19:09, Devon Blake <<a href="mailto:devonrb@gmail.com" target="_blank">devonrb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> > I'm pretty sure I have all the communications for quite a few years, as<br>
>> > I<br>
>> > haven't deleted anything.<br>
>> > Devon<br>
>> ><br>
>> > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <<a href="mailto:jmalcolm@eff.org" target="_blank">jmalcolm@eff.org</a>><br>
>> > wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> >> On 29/12/17 6:39 am, Renata Aquino Ribeiro wrote:<br>
>> >> > Thank you for this new list.<br>
>> >> > What will happen to the old archives?<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Unfortunately, it seems that they are gone forever. When the IGC's<br>
>> >> last<br>
>> >> hosting company went bankrupt and left us without access to the server<br>
>> >> except via the web, I went and downloaded all of the mail archives and<br>
>> >> transferred them to the new virtual server. But then when I regained<br>
>> >> access to the new machine recently when I was trying to get the<br>
>> >> mailing<br>
>> >> list working again, the archives had been deleted in the meantime. I<br>
>> >> don't know how or by whom. But unless a backup was taken at our<br>
>> >> hosting<br>
>> >> provider Digital Ocean (and I can't check this, because I don't have<br>
>> >> the<br>
>> >> login), this means the archives are lost for good.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> --<br>
>> >> Jeremy Malcolm<br>
>> >> Senior Global Policy Analyst<br>
>> >> Electronic Frontier Foundation<br>
>> >> <a href="https://eff.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://eff.org</a><br>
>> >> <a href="mailto:jmalcolm@eff.org" target="_blank">jmalcolm@eff.org</a><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161<br>
>> >><br>
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>> >><br>
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>> >> PGP fingerprint: 75D2 4C0D 35EA EA2F 8CA8 8F79 4911 EC4A EDDF 1122<br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
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><br>
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