On 2021-07-23 17:52, Brett Delmage wrote: > As part of an upgrade of the OCLUG list software underway, I am trying to > recover and restore the complete list archives to restore our recorded > history. This list has been operating for 23 years, based on the old > messages I have. > > At first glance I have ~60K OCLUG list messages saved, starting March 1998. > It looked like the list was already underway then and I am missing some even > earlier messages though. > > Do you have a compilation of list messages, including any older than 1998? My archives start about a year later, but I'm pretty sure I was on the list very close to the start in 1998 or earlier, but I only have 6k messages. > I would like to build archives from several sources to minimize a risk of > gaps in any one source, including mine. If you have old list messages please > email me and let me know in general what you have. > > I will merge multiply-sourced messages I receive into one unduplicated > archive. I'll also strip out mail headers, to the bare minimum needed for > the archives (e.g. Date, Subject). So don't worry about your delivery > address or internal mail routing in your headers. I'll need to clean up my > own mail headers so will clean all messages, once compiled and deduped. > > Here are a few of the earliest list messages I found in my files so far: > > 1 1998-03-10 TheBorg (2K) [oclug] MetroX - Video Cards > 2 1998-03-10 Dave Neil (8K) [oclug] Ralph Nader Letter > 3 1998-03-10 Russell McOrmond (3K) Re: [oclug] offtopic: Pretty interesting patents > 4 1998-03-10 Russell McOrmond (3K) Re: [oclug] offtopic: Pretty interesting patents > 5 1998-03-10 Dale Tiller (4K) Re: [oclug] offtopic: Not Linux > 6 1998-03-10 Paul J.Y. Lahaie (3K) Re: [oclug] offtopic: Pretty interesting patents > 7 1998-03-10 Paul J.Y. Lahaie (3K) Re: [oclug] offtopic: Pretty interesting patents > 8 1998-03-10 Russell McOrmond (2K) Re: [oclug] Other Linux consultants? > 9 1998-03-10 Douglas King (3K) Re: [oclug] MetroX - Video Cards > 10 1998-03-11 Patrick Cameau (2K) Re: [oclug] ML/PPP > 11 1998-03-11 Chris H (3K) Re: [oclug] Power Macintosh 4400/200 PC Compatible > 12 1998-03-11 Gilles J. Seguin (4K) Re: [oclug] -lc not found > 13 1998-03-11 Patrick Hertel (2K) [oclug] Linux on SCSI Disk > 14 1998-03-11 Chris H (3K) Re: [oclug] Linux on SCSI Disk > 15 1998-03-11 Guy Charron (3K) [oclug] problem removing dos partition > 16 1998-03-11 Chris Herrnberger (3K) Re: [oclug] problem removing dos partition > 17 1998-03-11 Yirk-Man Hui (4K) Re: [oclug] problem removing dos partition > 18 1998-03-11 Linux Doctor (3K) Re: [oclug] Linux on SCSI Disk > 19 1998-03-11 Paul Gilbert (3K) Re: [oclug] problem removing dos partition > 20 1998-03-11 G.J.W. Hagenaars (3K) Re: [oclug] problem removing dos partition > 21 1998-03-11 Jason C. Chen (2K) [oclug] playing WAV or MP3 files > 22 1998-03-11 Martin Hicks (2K) [oclug] RC5-64 > 23 1998-03-11 Alain Maisonneuve (7K) RE: [oclug] RC5-64 > 24 1998-03-11 Jason C. Chen (3K) [oclug] Re: playing WAV or MP3 files > 25 1998-03-11 Adrian Quick (2K) RE: [oclug] RC5-64 > 26 1998-03-11 James McOrmond (2K) Re: [oclug] Linux on SCSI Disk > 27 1998-03-11 Martin Hicks (2K) RE: [oclug] RC5-64 > 28 1998-03-11 Alan Nisbet (2K) [oclug] Looking for a scanner driver and/or setting up wine > 29 1998-03-11 Guy Charron (2K) Re: [oclug] problem removing dos partition > 30 1998-03-11 Jason C. Chen (2K) Re: [oclug] Looking for a scanner driver and/or setting up wine > 31 1998-03-12 Chris Herrnberger (2K) [oclug] Tape Drive Support/Linux > 32 1998-03-12 Trevor Boicey (2K) Re: [oclug] playing WAV or MP3 files > 33 1998-03-12 Christopher Neufeld (3K) Re: [oclug] Tape Drive Support/Linux > 34 1998-03-12 Linux Doctor (3K) Re: [oclug] RC5-64 > 35 1998-03-12 jamal (2K) Re: [oclug] RC5-64 > 36 1998-03-12 Jason Chen (3K) Re: [oclug] (before playing WAV/MP3; now PnP in Linux) > 37 1998-03-12 Linux Doctor (3K) Re: [oclug] RC5-64 > 38 1998-03-12 Andrew J. Hutton (2K) Re: [oclug] POP client > > Brett slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.ca> <www.TriColour.ca> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________ To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org