From: Piotr Gąsiorowski
Message: 71923
Date: 2019-12-12
> I have archived the Cybalist group's messages, files and photos, and am
> publishing the (filtered) archive to
> http://www.wrdingham.co.uk/cybalist/ . As you may know, Yahoo (now
> owned by Verizon) has declared that the messages and files will be
> deleted on 14 December. This time, I had a downloading tool (PG
> Offline 4) to help - I couldn't have done it in time by manual
> downloading.
>
> I have published all but about a dozen posts; they need some
> more work for me to able to publish them. I have irretrievably mangled
> all personal email addresses in the posts' published form. As the
> mangling logic can mistake phonetic '@' as email punctuation, there
> will be some republishing of posts as I apply more sophisticated logic
> to the mangling. I may be able to fix some of the mojibake and even do
> something about the massive link rot that has occurred over the twenty
> years. Ironically, Latin-1 non-ASCII characters submitted as Latin-1
> are not automatically recoverable.
>
> I have restored half the files (folders A-K) so far. However, I will
> not publish uploaded books where so doing may reasonably be expected to
> deprive the copyright holder of income he would otherwise have
> received. So far I have found that 3 files had no content - don't know
> whether they ever had any.
>
> Richard.
>
>