Looking for the Yahoo! Groups Traveller_TNE messages / files

[cmcknight]

HI All,

An acquaintance is looking for the messages from the Yahoo! Groups Traveller_TNE group. The service was shut down a few years ago, but he’s unsure if anyone archived the group.

Any pointers, contacts, etc., appreciated.

Chuck

 

[whartung]

I have not tried this, the article is 4 year old, but this may well work.

Yahoo! Groups Archive Metadata Now Available

After months of work and preparation, the metadata for over 1.1 million Yahoo! Groups retrieved by Archive Team's Python script as well as from other grabs has

datahorde.org

 

[whartung]

Well, nope, sorry you're out of luck.

They could only recover files from public groups, and the TNE group was not public. So, the Internet Archive is out.

 

[cmcknight]

I have not tried this, the article is 4 year old, but this may well work.

Yahoo! Groups Archive Metadata Now Available

After months of work and preparation, the metadata for over 1.1 million Yahoo! Groups retrieved by Archive Team's Python script as well as from other grabs has

datahorde.org

Yeah, I'd been there earlier. My acquaintance had given someone access to the group to archive it but apparently that never happened. Thanks for your response though!

 

[tjoneslo]

I am also looking for the archive of this as well. I know Yahoo made the archive available to members at the time, if you took the effort to download it. But I've not been able to find anyone who has.

 

[whartung]

Yea, I never understood why the folks that stood up those groups made them "private". I mean, I understand having to vet folks who want to post, but why did folks make them private to lurkers? I was on a couple of groups like that.

Reap and sow and all that I guess.

Worse, of course, since the group is gone, if you didn't reach out to alternate means of hooking up with group members, the group literally vanishes overnight. It just dies in the dark.

 

[Ash]

HI All,

An acquaintance is looking for the messages from the Yahoo! Groups Traveller_TNE group. The service was shut down a few years ago, but he’s unsure if anyone archived the group.

Any pointers, contacts, etc., appreciated.

Chuck

Edit, actually think i might have the wrong mail group, the one i have was tne-rces@silent-tower.org

I have some, seems I have from 16/01/2009 to 01/11/2013, 266 messages in all not sure if that is complete for that time period.

Ash

 

[DED]

The reason the TNE @ Yahoo ml group was private was because of flame wars from TNE haters. We were sick and tired of the BS, so we kept to ourselves.

Silent-Tower was the original ML, but it went offline for several months. The TNE @ Yahoo ml was started because we didn't know if Silent-Tower was ever coming back.

The TNE ml now exists on groups.io, specifically at: https://groups.io/g/Traveller-TNE

 

[FreeTrav]

I have at least a partial archive of the mailing list since 2012; I can provide it in zipped MBOX format via email if anyone is interested. Contact me off-forum at tech-at-freelancetraveller-dot-com and mention the TRAVELLER_TNE ARCHIVE in the subject line.

 

[aramis]

The reason the TNE @ Yahoo ml group was private was because of flame wars from TNE haters. We were sick and tired of the BS, so we kept to ourselves.

Silent-Tower was the original ML, but it went offline for several months. The TNE @ Yahoo ml was started because we didn't know if Silent-Tower was ever coming back.

The TNE ml now exists on groups.io, specifically at: https://groups.io/g/Traveller-TNE

The hate flowed both ways.
The TML was for TNE after the split, XBML for CT/MT. When T4 came out, Marc ordered them merged and the SNR dropped considerably.

Part of the issue was that a lot of TNE fans were new to Traveller. It's change in tone really did find a new audience.