Absolutely worth having the complete TML archive up to read.

There is an absolute wealth of information on everything Traveller and more in those messages.

Since the Web and Wikipedia the TML is less of a source of knowledge than it used to be. Want to know the minimum viable number of people to sustain genetic diversity in a population? It’s on the TML ...

Want to know why the Vilani are the way they are? It’s on the TML .... I should really write that up and send to Jeff one day ...

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Ewan

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On 6 May 2020, at 12:11, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:



Would it be a useful thing to try to collect as much of what can be located/recovered and (if required) do some format adjustments to have a searchable version of the most complete archive we could create?

Really, you'd want to, from, date sent, and the body plus any attached or embedded content if that was reasonable. You could lose a the rest of the mail headers I think. 

Would that be worth having?

TomB

On Wed, May 6, 2020, 04:48 Jeff Zeitlin, <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:

I was on the TML a long time before that, well before Eternal September
started. Unfortunately, I can no longer find the floppy disks I had with
TML archives on them in QWK format, from back when the TML was hosted at
the School of Engineering of the University of Western Ontario, list
manager James Perkins.

At the time, I attached to a BBS (The Executive Network Information System,
execnet.com, now defunct and the domain resold) that had internet email
access, and downloaded for offline use with a DOS program called SLMR.

On Tue, 5 May 2020 16:37:46 -0700, Greg Nokes <xxxxxx@nokes.name> wrote:

>My oldest is from Nov 2004, and the address was xxxxxx@travellerrpg.com <mailto:xxxxxx@travellerrpg.com> - but I know that I was on the TML before that - probably before gmail stored everything.
>
>> On May 5, 2020, at 4:15 PM, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> With this, I have determined that I have an archive of tml messages from the new list starting in 2012 and back to 2006 at travellercentral.com <http://travellercentral.com/>. 2006 to mid-August 2007 I was on digests, but after that, its single messages.
>>
>> I see our current list's archives extend to 2007. Is there anywhere that this Traveller central traffic lives? Should there be?
>>
>> Ironically, I saw a posting from 2007 on Alderson Disks/Discs.... clearly the wheel turns but just ends up at the same place ;)
>>
>> TomB
>>
>> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 6:49 PM Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com/> (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com <mailto:xxxxxx@simplelists.com>> wrote:
>> I just sent a private msg w/ the raw data from a TML msg from MAR2012 when the TML was at travellercentral.com <http://travellercentral.com/> (xxxxxx@travellercentral.com <mailto:xxxxxx@travellercentral.com>).
>>
>> As I recall, Jon, who ran the site, wanted to retire that server which meant the TML had to move.
>>
>> I also recall that he was in declining health.
>>
>> Anybody know how he's doing?
>>
>> I hope he's OK.
>>
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>>
>> On Tuesday, May 5, 2020, 08:54:11 AM MST, <xxxxxx@gmail.com <mailto:xxxxxx@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> For some reasons, though I could be mistaken, I think this list may have moved list-servers some time in the last decade.
>>
>> a) Do I recall that correctly?
>> b) If so, does anyone have the email address that the older list traffic would have originated from?
>>
>> I'm getting ready to extract most of my mail from the auspices of the Googles, so getting all the bits I want to save seems prudent.
>>
>> Lastly, is there an online mailing list archive that is searchable?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> TomB
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