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Yeah, I've no idea - you've had the same information I have, I think
the breakdown of file types will be pretty high in the EXE and movie
fields, a little audio, and some text and screenshots. As for amounts,
I've no idea, I have no contact at FileFront and there is only a
general email to try, which no doubt someone (hopefully!) has already
tried for information on this issue :)<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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Henry Lowood wrote:
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<font face="Georgia">Andrew,<br>
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I am in touch with the people I know at IA about this. Simon, too, I'm
sure. At the moment, like me, they do not have enough information to
understand the options for formal action or a project. It's important
that at some point someone summarize where things are and what sorts of
files would be involved in the rescue action.<br>
<br>
Henry<br>
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type="cite">Andrew,<br>
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If IA wants to host the FileFront stuff, why not just e-mail or contact
them and let them know. I honestly don't know what IA would and would
not take for archival.<br>
<br>
I'll try and write up some notes from the con as well, but I need to do
class prep for tomorrow as well, so it might be next weekend.<br>
<br>
-D<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Andrew
Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:andrew@aarmstrong.org">andrew@aarmstrong.org</a>></span>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I've
got some notes to write up from GDC for the SIG, as well as a report
I'll write on the status of the "State of preservation". This will be
done next week, I'm still not back home yet :)<br>
<br>
Feel free, anyone who wasn't able to attend GDC or who has and wants to
comment, to bring up items to talk about here - I'll try and summarise
my notes, but questions on "Did you discuss XXX" or "Can I suggest
project YYY" or "Can I help since I joined the SIG from seeing your
leaflet" or even just "Hi I'm new" are all welcome.<br>
<br>
The main thing I want to bring to people's attention just now is there
is some behind the scenes effort by Simon Carless, Jason Scott and
including a few others to try and somehow get the 48 Terabytes of files
off FileFront - check this page for the sad news that it is closing
tomorrow! <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://farewell.filefront.com/" target="_blank">http://farewell.filefront.com/</a><br>
<br>
Hopefully someone will be able to get the files in some form so they
can be uploaded to the Internet Archive. If anyone has a contact at
FileFront it would be worth ringing them now and seeing perhaps if the
files can be secured somehow (or ring up/contact Jason Scott to help
his efforts).<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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"Until next time..."<br>
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