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I just got emergency email from Teresa Nielsen Hayden.
Some of you will recall the Great AW Diaspora of Spring 2006 (see; see also).
Making Light, which was one of the sites where AW refugees hung out during that time, has just suffered its own data disaster. Some fried hardware at its hosting site has wiped out everything back to the beginning of March 2008. (Be very kind to Jim Macdonald. He's also one of Making Light's editors, and he may have lost a substantial amount of writing that had been saved as draft posts on Movable Type.)
Making Light's emergency operations center is at Abigail Sutherland's Live Journal, Evilrooster Crows, http://www.sunpig.com/abi.
Like the AW community in 2006, the Making Light community is trying to salvage what they can from online caches and personal stashes. They need to act fast.
Most urgently: If any of you are Making Light readers, and currently have any part of it in your browser history or RSS caches, please consider saving it and forwarding it to the salvage project.
Also: If anyone here was part of the AW cache salvage project and remembers how it was done, please write to Teresa Nielsen Hayden, [email protected], and cc: Patrick Nielsen Hayden, [email protected]; James D. Macdonald, [email protected]; Avram Grumer, [email protected]; and Abigail Sutherland, [email protected].
if anyone wants to volunteer to help, go to Evilrooster Crows and look for the current lists of what's been recovered and what needs to be recovered.
Please pass the word along to appropriate parties. And if you have another clever way to salvage ML's data, do please get in touch with them and suggest it.
Thanks.
Some of you will recall the Great AW Diaspora of Spring 2006 (see; see also).
Making Light, which was one of the sites where AW refugees hung out during that time, has just suffered its own data disaster. Some fried hardware at its hosting site has wiped out everything back to the beginning of March 2008. (Be very kind to Jim Macdonald. He's also one of Making Light's editors, and he may have lost a substantial amount of writing that had been saved as draft posts on Movable Type.)
Making Light's emergency operations center is at Abigail Sutherland's Live Journal, Evilrooster Crows, http://www.sunpig.com/abi.
Like the AW community in 2006, the Making Light community is trying to salvage what they can from online caches and personal stashes. They need to act fast.
Most urgently: If any of you are Making Light readers, and currently have any part of it in your browser history or RSS caches, please consider saving it and forwarding it to the salvage project.
Also: If anyone here was part of the AW cache salvage project and remembers how it was done, please write to Teresa Nielsen Hayden, [email protected], and cc: Patrick Nielsen Hayden, [email protected]; James D. Macdonald, [email protected]; Avram Grumer, [email protected]; and Abigail Sutherland, [email protected].
if anyone wants to volunteer to help, go to Evilrooster Crows and look for the current lists of what's been recovered and what needs to be recovered.
Please pass the word along to appropriate parties. And if you have another clever way to salvage ML's data, do please get in touch with them and suggest it.
Thanks.
If it's too much trouble, I can ask my husband to show me when he gets home tonight...