Re: Half a Library is better than none (and more Links news)

["Dark Gremlin" <the_gremlin28@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can add it to HoC. Let me know

--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Vykor <vykor@v...> wrote:
> When GeoCities started deactivating old sites, I was afraid 
something like
> this might happen.  So I took the liberty of downloading the site 
a few
> weeks ago, and now I have an offline copy of SlayerHacker as it 
was then,
> fics, art, layout and all.  Two pieces were down already, 
the "Episode
> shippiness" and "Quotes" sections, but the rest are intact.
>
> As expected, the WayBack machine didn't crawl through a large 
section of the
> site, but I believe I have most of the missing pieces.  However, I 
don't
> have the hosting power, nor could I get into contact with the 
original
> maintainers for permission to redistribute.
>
> So if someone might be interested in restoring Slayer Hacker, I 
can send the
> files over.  It weighs in at just under 12 megs, uncompressed, so 
it won't
> be too much of a bandwidth hog.
>
>
> Vykor
>
> on 7/16/04 11:01 AM, danspector@w... wrote:
>
> > Good and bad news, on various link-related subjects.
> > 
> > GOOD NEWS: Since Slayerhacker was the original archive for these 
lists,
> > none of those fics are actually gone. They're all in the posts 
archives.
> > 
> > BAD NEWS: The posts archives are a pain to use.   (Blah font, 
hard to
> > find, in parts, Yahoo ads, etc.) I really prefer the HTML. And 
some of
> > the stuff isn't archived anywhere else. Including some of my 
faves, like
> > Janine's "Starlight" (thank God I printed it out at my dad's last
> > Thanksgiving) and the series starting with "Not So Bad Beer".
> > 
> > GOOD NEWS: Archive.org's Wayback Machine is a useful tool, and 
the main
> > page was recorded by their webcrawlers several times, including 
the link
> > that the_lx4 gave us.
> > 
> > BAD NEWS: Unlike with other sites accessed in this way, I can't 
get the
> > links to the fics to work at all. the_lx4, do you know what's 
going
> > wrong? Because I'd gladly make use of tinyurl and keep the link 
in the
> > active folder. 
> > 
> > In any event, the banners and layout (and probably the fanarts) 
are
> > gone, as the Wayback Machine tends to have a problem with images.
> > Depressing.



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