Re: FAB-UFO archives

>On Sun Aug 28, 2005 Marc wrote: Here are some zipped text files
>with messages sent to FAB-UFO in 1994, 1995, and 1996.

Thank you very much for these. A quick glance suggests there were a
lot of posts each month! Would you say that there were more "in
them days?" Perhaps it has all been said before!!


>James Gibbon wrote: I don't have copies of digests, but I do have
>all of the list mail since May 1998 .. I could probably write a
>script to convert it all into HTML and put it up on my webserver
>sometime. Not today though

But maybe someday, please...........pretty please.........???


>On Friday, August 26th 2005, Marc wrote: I took a look at
>www.archive.org, which archives old versions of websites, but I see
>they only have a few of the old FAB-UFO digests. For those of you
>who'd like to poke around and read what's available there, here's a
>link:

>http://web.archive.org/web/20030507171517/www.lists.pipex.com/cgi-
>bin/digests?list=fab-ufo

There are some for a list "FAB-L". Does anybody know if this
list still going? It seemed to be for all of Gerry Anderson's work.

Sarah (UK)

> Thank you very much for these. A quick glance suggests there were a
> lot of posts each month! Would you say that there were more "in
> them days?"

I think it has been busier on the list than it is now... there may
have also been more enthusiasm back then, because it was a new
mailing list, and the Internet itself was rather new to people.
Also, back in the 1990s we had a lot of people building their
own UFO websites, which is not something you see today.

Ironically, the discussions seemed to start to wane AFTER the
UFO DVDs were released!

> There are some for a list "FAB-L". Does anybody know if this
> list still going? It seemed to be for all of Gerry Anderson's work.

I don't think FAB-L is still going, and I'm not really sure
what list would be good for *all* of Gerry's work -- it seems
like the lists are mostly splintered off by series (just as
well, as I'm sure there are people who like one series more
than the others)

Marc

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On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:11:42 -0000
"moonbasegirl" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> >James Gibbon wrote: I don't have copies of digests, but I do have
> >all of the list mail since May 1998 .. I could probably write a
> >script to convert it all into HTML and put it up on my webserver
> >sometime. Not today though
>
> But maybe someday, please...........pretty please.........???
>

One day, yes. Maybe even one day next week .. :D


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On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:11:42 -0000
"moonbasegirl" <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> >James Gibbon wrote: I don't have copies of digests, but I do have
> >all of the list mail since May 1998 .. I could probably write a
> >script to convert it all into HTML and put it up on my webserver
> >sometime. Not today though
>
> But maybe someday, please...........pretty please.........???
>

OK, it's still a bit crude, and in particular it's not threaded, but
here's an archive of 1998's list mail, from May when I signed up:

http://groover.kicks-ass.net/ufo1998/

Other years to follow soon.

James

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--- In [hidden email], James Gibbon <jg@j...> wrote:
>
> OK, it's still a bit crude, and in particular it's not threaded, but
> here's an archive of 1998's list mail, from May when I signed up:
>
> http://groover.kicks-ass.net/ufo1998/
>
> Other years to follow soon.


Many thanks James for these. Is there a simple way of saving them to
my own PC? I seem to be unable to save them "en masse", perhaps I
have to open each one and save?? Sorry - clueless!!

Looking forward to seeing more!

Sarah

> Many thanks James for these. Is there a simple way of saving them to
> my own PC? I seem to be unable to save them "en masse", perhaps I
> have to open each one and save?? Sorry - clueless!!

When archiving a discussion group, I wonder if it's a good idea
to place every message on single page? Yahoo does this, but I find
it rather cumbersome. Other email lists I've been on archive an
entire month's worth of messages into a single file, or sometimes
*all* of the past discussions into a single file, which can be
a huge download, but also can also allow one to put the file into
a text editor and do a search.

Marc

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:13:51 -0000
"moonbasegirl" <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Many thanks James for these. Is there a simple way of saving them to
> my own PC? I seem to be unable to save them "en masse", perhaps I
> have to open each one and save?? Sorry - clueless!!
>
> Looking forward to seeing more!

No simple way to downloading them en masse, I'm afraid. Anyway, more
at:

http://groover.kicks-ass.net/ufo1999
http://groover.kicks-ass.net/ufo2000
http://groover.kicks-ass.net/ufo2001

James


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> No simple way to downloading them en masse, I'm afraid. Anyway, more
> at:

I think there are software programs that will allow you to download
an entire website, aren't there? I think this functionality may
even be built into Internet Explorer...

Marc

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:59:32 -0700
"Marc Martin" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> > No simple way to downloading them en masse, I'm afraid. Anyway, more
> > at:
>
> I think there are software programs that will allow you to download
> an entire website, aren't there? I think this functionality may
> even be built into Internet Explorer...

There are certainly one or two special utilities which can be used for
this purpose, in Linux at least. But because the main index for each
of the main directories redirects to the first mail index, which
represents only a subset of the mail archive for each year, a simple
browser 'save as' download won't do the trick, unfortunately. I don't
think it would do a full recursive download either, following all the
links.

James


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--- In [hidden email], James Gibbon <jg@j...> wrote:
> There are certainly one or two special utilities which can be used
for this purpose, in Linux at least. But because the main index for
each of the main directories redirects to the first mail index, which
> represents only a subset of the mail archive for each year, a simple
> browser 'save as' download won't do the trick, unfortunately. I
>don't think it would do a full recursive download either, following
>all the links.


Sorry, but could you speak English?!! [g] Um, am I right in thinking
then that these links go to another site, where the posts can be
read? If so, are they going to be there for a while? I'm asking
because it might take me some time to work through them, then I guess
I can save each one as I read it, if wanted.

You guys have been fantastic to do all the work necessary to put the
old FAB archives up on the net. A big thank you! The only period
missing would be January 1997 to May 1998. If anyone has these
stored away, can they be put up somewhere, sometime?

Bye for now,

Sarah

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:22:38 -0000
"moonbasegirl" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Sorry, but could you speak English?!! [g] Um, am I right in thinking
> then that these links go to another site, where the posts can be
> read?

No, they are all on the same site; on a webserver under my desk in my
study, in fact!

> If so, are they going to be there for a while?

Yes, I'll leave them there for a month or two at least, I should
think - unless they become spectacularly popular and chew up my
monthly transfer allowance, but since they are only text and don't
take up too much bandwidth, I don't anticipate a problem.

> You guys have been fantastic to do all the work necessary to put the
> old FAB archives up on the net. A big thank you!

:D

It's a pleasure.

James

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