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[Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

It looks like the ibilio archive goes back to July 2002. That's when the
lists and server were moved to ibiblio. For those nostagic people in the
crowd, here is probably the first post on the new ML:
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-discuss/2002-July/000000.html

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 09:30, Mads Laursen wrote:
> On 04/01/04 20.22, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Quoting Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>:
> > > There has now been, for the second time in the last few months, a 
> > > question 
> > > about the name of our distribution.  When the name change was 
> > > finalized, all
> > > of our public interfaces (mail lists, Web sites, etc.) also changed and 
> > > none
> > > of the existing public interfaces have any of the history from before 
> > > the 
> > > name change.
> > > 
> > > I may be wrong, but as I remember it, the name that won the vote was 
> > > "Source
> > > Mage GNU/Linux".  I remember it so vividly, because I voted against it. 
> > >  :^) 
> > > (And the guy who wanted it so much is no longer with us.)  I thought 
> > > the name
> > > stunk and I wanted something else.  (I was also not very pleased with 
> > > any of
> > > the offerings, but failed to come up with anything better, so here I 
> > > stand.) 
> > > 
> > > Despite the fact that I voted against it, I now defend it whenever it 
> > > is 
> > > questioned or challenged.
> > > 
> > > What I'm looking for now is if there is anyone out there who was wise 
> > > (or 
> > > smart, or lucky, or...) enough to save some or all of our history.  I'm 
> > > only
> > > 
> > > interested in the time period from when our first fearless leader went 
> > > into 
> > > isolation (ahem -- deep coding) to when then name change took effect.  
> > > I 
> > > think we should, if possible, try to reintegrated it back into our 
> > > existing 
> > > public interface or at least provide a place on the Web site or Wiki 
> > > where 
> > > the information can be publicly accessed.
> > > 
> > > What say you?
> > 
> > I think that this is a great idea! However, I didn't have my server at 
> > the time
> > and was in the habit of formatting my drive quite often (trying the new 
> > ISO's.
> > ;)), so I only have the third month of 2002 for the SGL lists
> > (hvs.envisage.co.za) (which is right after everything was pulled by the
> > aforementioned leader), and everything since the fourth month of 2002 for 
> > our
> > new SGL lists (sorcerylinux.org), if any of that would help.
> 
> I had a look in my email directory (fairly large since I'm on a few
> lists, and a notorious packrat), and my subscription the the SGL
> mailing list is dated 'Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:34:10 +0200', so from that
> point on I should have everything (unless it was lost in transit). If
> I can get a list of what is missing, I'll see about getting it from my
> archieve (I'll need to remove unneeded headers and the odd personal
> mail that might have gotten in there).
> 
> /dossen
-- 
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum.

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