[xp-a] Unavailability of xpilot-hacks mailing list/archives

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Hi,

Sadly, enigma.nslug.ns.ca is dead again due to the third hdd failure
suffered this year.  This failure was complete -- the data on the drive
is totally unrecoverable.  By this time we (the admins at NSLUG) are all
good and fed up with cheap PC hardware and would like to replace it with
real server hardware.  However, that stuff isn't easy to come by, so
we're scrambling to find donors, and thus it may not happen for some
time.  In the interim, some slightly more modern hardware will replace
the old dead hdd and the now suspect motherboard (which we fear
sustained damage being yoked to a power supply that exhibited some
flakiness just before we replaced it several months back, and
subsequently ate the three hdds).

Even more sadly, there were no backups of the archives.  Our LUG's web
site was in CVS and so can be recovered, but the archives were to be
backed up over amanda on our co-loc's backup system.  Unfortunately,
after we inserted the 2nd nic in enigma to make this happen, none of the
admins had the time to work with our co-loc to get the backups up and
running before this final, catastrophic hdd failure struck.

So, if you're wondering where xpilot-hacks and its archives went, that's
the whole shaggy dog story.

By the way, if anyone has a complete folder of xpilot-hacks email, I
could try reconstructing the archives.  I do have a fair amount of it
myself, but I'm not certain it is complete.

Also, I don't have a subscriber list, so if anyone just happens to have
a copy of the list of any age and/or state of (in)completeness or has a
copy of a reasonably complete list of developers to send a one-time
mailing to, then once I have the new list started, I would like to email
as many interested people as possible so they can resubscribe
themselves.

Regards,
Ben for ad...@ns...
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