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We must preserve the Cypherpunks Mailing List archives! IMPORTANT!



On 6 July 2018 at 02:07, <di8h13+2t1m5bqobdhg at guerrillamail.com> wrote:

> I have a solid archive 2002-present. Set up an FTP site and post the
> details to the list
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Hi, send me a password in the same way. I'll get the FTP set up (though it
will likely be monday before I can).

Once I've done that, I'll post the details to the list, absent the password
you chose.

On 5 July 2018 at 21:46, Tom Busby <tom at busby.ninja> wrote:

> I've written a blog post about this with further details if anyone is
> interested:
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> https://cryptoanarchy.wiki/blog/2018/07/05/the-cypherpunks-mailing-list-
> archives-must-be-preserved.html
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> The primary reason I'm sending this email is to appeal to those of you who
> have been active on the list since before July 2013 (when the switch to GNU
> Mailman occurred) and to those of you who know now-inactive subscribers who
> may also have this information.
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> There is a total black hole in terms of available archived threads from
> early 1999 to mid 2013. I've contacted the guy who ran the al-qaeda.net
> node and dug around in the way back machine trying to locate these
> archives. No luck so far.
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> I'm worried this information will be lost permanently if a concerted
> effort isn't made to preserve it now, while *some* of it is perhaps still
> preserved on people's hard drives. I have no doubt that some (maybe most)
> of the threads from the early 2000s may already be lost permanently.
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> Please get in touch if you think you can help out at all.
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> Tom Busby
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