The thought just occurred to me after this recent post by him that he has an unusual amoount of prior threads copied - could his trying to grab every thread have been the cause of the system crashing?

-- Nadine Zint (nadine@hillsboro.net), February 20, 2000

Answers

No, he was using copies of threads long before that day.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), February 20, 2000.

So, who did ask the original question? How do I download this forum?

Anyone?

Anyone remember? I would go to the archive, but...

It's too late, and I've got better ways to waste my time...

See you kids in the next thread, I'm sure...

Tick... Tock... <:00= ...

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), February 20, 2000.

From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

It was Lisa@casa.now Thread may still be viewed at: Sysops? Please? Can give URL for downloading TB Database?

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), February 21, 2000.

Last I heard, Phil Greenspun did more investigation and found the problem was NOT due to TBY2K participants downloading the archives, but rather to what appeared to be an organized attack of spider robots.

There is also the following of interest from the3 Debunking Y2K board:

http://stand77.com/wwwboard/messages/2433.html

Archive Tools

Posted by (128.2.214.180) mpc on October 27, 1999 at 12:49:10:

Given the good Doctor's suggestion earlier, I did a quick search for tools to archive the web. I've found a nice little toy called "Site Snagger" which vaccuums entire websites onto local disk. I'm currently running it on y2kchaos.com to see the results. Mind you, I've got a T1 Line and I'm seeing serious performance suck here. I'd like to talk to Doc, Patricia and CPR about archiving this after I've got some of this data. I was planning to build a fairly large library of Y2K...ahem...literature as it is, and I think this is probably the way to go.

Of course, this brings up the issue of whether or not I really want to archive TB2000. Ugh... I feel unclean just thinking about it.

Re: Archive Tools

Posted by (170.160.9.3) The Engineer on October 27, 1999 at 13:49:27:

In Reply to: Archive Tools posted by mpc on October 27, 1999 at 12:49:10:

Most certainly get all of TB that you can. Otherwise it'll be: "I never said that!" after the first of the year. The real failures next year will be the memory failures of a lot of posters. Ditto North's site, Cowles, Martin, et. al. The more info you have the better.

Posted by (208.188.21.33) cpr on October 27, 1999 at 14:31:02:

In Reply to: Re: Archive Tools posted by mpc on October 27, 1999 at 14:08:27:

After I get DSL again, I might be able to do something. Now its a pain. SW Bell has a fluke in it that times me out if I download too much. I'm now on my 8th software "aid" and none work. This one is "Stay On Pro" and it doesn't except in FTP. MSFT better do something about DUN. I can't even ping to stay on during downloads.

Frey's has a Maxtor 13gig for $129. I paid $139 10 days ago for an IBM. I was lucky enough to stash all the major News stories in email folders by sending them to myself for years.

Gary was nice enough last year to ZIP his web site for me and then balked with the ZipMan wanted $500/month. Many of Garee's early links are dead. De Jager's list is still around and the early ones make a sharp contrast to the crap now. I stopped it last Dec. but might sign on again for the Grand Finale. He is now at about 1,000 vs. 3,000 at the peak.

Most lists are failing and some sites are dusted already.

If I were you (even with secure storage there), I would get some of it to an offsite location through the Net. Its simple enough Zipping saves a lot of brain damage.

CD is too small for this now. I have no interest in wading through tons of EY Gate to get to one or two threads. Most of it is a waste.

Cowles already "revised". Martin's old site has some interesting things on it. The new one on Egroups is mostly "relays" of other crud from the web or gary or whatever he can find.

Can't archive Greenspun SQL data directly with most programs

Posted by (12.67.17.90 [which matches the IP used by Paul Davis at Debunking Y2K]) You don't wanna know on October 27, 1999 at 18:17:49:

In Reply to: After I add DSL again. I need the pipe now. posted by cpr on October 27, 1999 at 14:31:02:

Yah gotta use stragedy. Cause of de goofy ? in de middle uf de URL strings. Most uv dem site rapers don lak de ?. Gotta hack up de JAVA to mek it good.

I be hackin'. De time boom she be comin' down de wyah ah betcha.

-- Not (what@you.think), February 21, 2000.

of course he was, he's capable of anything, its so obvious especially with a handle like that

just thought "capable of anything" might be construed as a compliment

-- sir richard (richard.dale@unum.co.uk), February 21, 2000.