Re: [Aroid-l] Aroid l archive]

From: ExoticRainforest <Steve at ExoticRainforest.com> on 2009.08.12 at 20:25:32 Thanks Steve.  Until late last weekI could find posts from the 1990's and often copied the material. Anything you have would help. Steve Steve Marak wrote: Steve,The archives at Hort.net aren't maintained by anyone in the IAS or by me as part of Aroid-L - as you know, Hort.net archives many botanical and horticultural lists. I don't know if they have some site policy on how long to keep mailing list archives, but it's entirely possible that they only started archiving Aroid-L in 1996. Remember that Aroid-L has been around since before there was much of a World Wide Web (anyone else remember "gopher"?) and before there were the sophisticated archiving options we take for granted now. I'm a little surprised they have 13 years worth!I have attempted to keep copies of all posts from the very beginning. I say "attempted" because, although paranoia is a way of life and not an illness when you work in IT and I normally keept at least 3 or 4 copies of important files, that's a lot of disk failures ago, and some of the media are pretty old and weren't all that reliable when they were new. But I will see what I can find. It'll probably take a while, since I may have to rent excavating equipment for all the old floppies and magneto-optical disks and DAT tapes ...SteveOn Wed, 12 Aug 2009, ExoticRainforest wrote: --------------050300070605000403090306

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