I remember those posts. I probably still remember why his pc's date was wrong. Err... I probably still don't remember.Although the most intresting thread I found there from 1980? Lyndon and Programmer! Before EFI? Pretty sure that's a glitch in dates!
I have a pile of messages saved until July 2003. After that I may have unsubbed or subbed using a web based email client. They're saved in text format but as Netscape / Mozilla email records. I believe I can sort them into a separate mailbox then copy the mailbox record as a text file... It's been a few years since I've played with this.And yes, if you have missing archives please send them my way (text format is best).
I might have something else, too, from when Steve Ravet was first working on making an archive search engine. I'll dig around.
Some interesting history...
Around 2001 or so people were switching from primarily text based email with occasional attachments to HTML based email. These would come through the diy-efi mailer daemon as an HTML attachment or a little text with with large amounts of non-text data included. The archives were automatically stored as text at the end of each month and they were getting clogged with garbage. So a few of us got together and worked hard to trim out any non-text portions of the messages including HTML attachments. I actually wrote the program that did most of the work but it wasn't very smart so the volunteers would sanity check the program's output then if necessary feed it back through or perform a manual edit. Overall they came out pretty well but I seem to remember it taking a couple of months from start to finish. If Jay Vessels is still around over there you might want to send him a Thank you note. I seem to remember him putting a lot of time into cleaning everything up.
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