From: pcalvert@economics.adelaide.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: Re: ADMIN: Is anyone archiving this?
Message-ID: <1992Aug17.100542.1@economics.adelaide.edu.au>
Date: 17 Aug 92 00:35:42 GMT
References: <1992Aug14.221211.5394@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>

In article <1992Aug14.221211.5394@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>, aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey) writes:
> The subject line says it all...
> 
> I know that, at least, the Save Dougl stuff has been saved, since I have a copy
> of it in my hot little virtual hands right now(thanks to ...sage), but I'm
> wondering if earlier and later and in general other stuff has been saved as
> well.  I don't supposed that anyone had the foresight to start saving with
> article #1, unless they collect first articles to newsgroups(an interesting
> idea, that)...
> 
> Just curious...I'd hate to think that all my great posts are doomed to
> ephemerality...
> 

Archivers:, I recall some people said that they were archiving articles when 
the group first started, but haven't heard anything since then.
BTW, article #1 will differ depending on the site. Many articles were posted
before all the sites were linked (thus I had ...sage sitting in a blank Inn
for about two days before the rest of the world caught up :)

I have archived the "save Dougl" posts AND converted them to novella form 
(which is currently being proof-read and corrected).
I have also archived the "KronQuesters" thread plus a few other articles
along the way that looked like they may tie in, which the intention of turning
them into book form as well (over 300 posts to-date, phew-ee!).

I volunteer to maintain an archivers list.
If you are archiving particular posts (or ALL of them if you have time and
space) then please let me know. Then if anyone wants to a) read old articles
or b) convert a thread to story-form, then we can coordinate the effort that
would be involved.

Also, if you want an old "KronQuester" article, please give me some info on
who wrote it and when it was written if possible. I've saved them all as
aaa.txt, aab.txt etc (I'm up to aoh.txt), and it takes a fair while to sift
through them all.

Note: once Save Dougl has been proofed and tidied I'll announce it to y'all
and email it to those who want a copy.
It'll require major surgery before being released outside the Inn, since the
style and character interplay will take a lot to figure out by non-patrons.
All of this is being done with "Tales from the Dragon's Inn" in mind, which
will be a collection of shortstories being told at the Inn interspersed with
the activities of the patrons. (at the moment, there's a lot more action and
less stories being told, but short stories will be easier to knock up if
needed than the actions that we are seeing now).

							...sage