[TheForge] LOOK WHAT I FOUND! (Was: History of The Forge/OT)

[terry l. ridder]

hello;

i have these all ready.
theforge.1995 file appears to be an edited version of theforge.1996.
a quick 'diff --side-by-side theforge.1995 theforge.1996' shows this.

what are missing are theforge wugate archives from the end of january
1997 to december 1998. december 1998 is when the majordomo qth.net
epoch begins.

for those really interested there is available on qth.net a compressed
tar file, tforge.tar.gz which has the majordomo qth.net epoch in html
pages. these archives are in reverse chronological order.
i.e.
    december 2001 
    november 2001
    october  2001
    ...
    january  2001

within each month the messages are latest to oldest.
to get the idea please refer to:

http://mailman.qth.net/archive/theforge/theforge.html

the tforge.tar.gz file is 14,095,567 bytes. even with a fast
connection it appears that qth.net is rate limiting the download, so it
takes a good while to download.

http://mailman.qth.net/archive/theforge/tforge.tar.gz

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Bruce Freeman wrote:

bruce> 
bruce> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/crafts/blacksmithing/theforge.mailing-list/theforge.1995
bruce> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/crafts/blacksmithing/theforge.mailing-list/theforge.1996
bruce> 
bruce> I got error messages when I tried 1994 and earlier or 1997 and later. 
bruce> Sometimes such error messages are erroneous, however.
bruce> 
bruce> Better have a fast internet connection.  Seems to be one whole year per
bruce> file!
bruce> 
bruce> Bruce
bruce> NJ
bruce> 

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terry l. ridder ><>