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Kenny  
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 More options Dec 19 2008, 12:20 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Kenny <kentil...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:20:00 -0500
Subject: Re: Recovering the ALU wiki

Thomas F. Burdick wrote:
> On 19 déc, 15:44, Tim Bradshaw <tfb+goo...@tfeb.org> wrote:

>>On Dec 18, 11:38 am, WalterGR <walte...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>"...I'm doing what I can to rescue the wiki from this end. But it's
>>>better to be safe than sorry. If I were you, I'd recover what you
>>>can."

>>>Anyone want to help me do this?  E-mail me (walte...@aol.com
>>>preferred) or respond here.

>>*Surely* they had backups, right?  Or maybe they only had onsite ones
>>and they had a fire or something?

> Seems more like they're hunting down and destroying copies of the RtL.

<pssst!> I grabbed a copy of the Highlight Film anyway <\pssst!>

> Two days ago, you could access most of the cached pages from
> archive.org. Silly me, I figured, "okay, worst case scenario they can
> be recovered from there." It seems they've since installed a
> Robots.txt that archive.org is honoring and no longer serving up the
> cached copies. I'm guessing this is incompetence not malice, but ...

A plot would be so much cooler. Once the marketing devices have been
1984ed and the flood of novices eliminated the secret guild trying to
get control of the grail just needs to track down and eliminate any
masters outside the... omigod. It /is/ the yobbos.

I shall begin work on the screenplay. The Last Lisper. Cruise will be
all over this.

more soon!

kxo


 
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