Recovering what was lost

[gibson042]

Free Talk Archive: Preserve for posterity the conversations catalyzing a truly free society.

Anyone that thinks the recently deleted FTL posts are valuable enough to preserve can now donate to the cause at Ulule. If enough money is raised, we'll get the backup and make it publicly available for as long as possible! You have 42 days to contribute.

[AntonLee]

: wind blows :

[Tom Sawyer]

So Ian got drunk and tried to destroy the history of his great experiment in spontaneous order?

[Alex Libman]

Dan Garthwaite promised to recover the data, and I'll pay for it.

Also I've started doing some Web scraping...  http://www.AlexLibman.com/fta/

(Didn't have time to code up all of my mechanisms yet, but the static archive will look pretty good when I'm finished.)

[Alex Libman]

OK, I have all forum scrapes and Dan's data extract in place.  Download it, mirror it, share it, burn it to CD, etc.  The scrapes probably aren't perfect, but that's just the first stage of a parser project I'll be working on down the road.  (At the moment I'm too busy ending my tax resistance and being raped by the state like a good little citizen...)