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
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