The Frontier Refugee Camp

[Anssi Hakkinen]

I completely agree with EC - save *everything* you can first, get this show back on the road in some fashion at least, then start talking about unpleasant stuff.

Unfortunately, my prognosis proved correct - I have the same setting as Erwin on my primary computer, and my secondary one has such a small cache that it has nothing but posts that are older than Coug's backup and some OT spam filth (from this moment on spam disgusts me ). So, I won't be able to help anyone else - but to re-state, I do have all my news posts, as well as full knowledge of everything I've done in other threads. So if you're willing to trust me, I'm in the clear. All I worry about is you guys.

Please endure.

[Anssi Hakkinen]

d/p - did I mention that my other computer is on a 14.4k connection?

[Teekay]

My daughter is doing fine, thank you for asking. Thank you everyone else for your well wishes on the forums as well, btw; I didn't get to thank you there. We took her in for tests on Friday, and we'll know exactly what she has -- if it's serious or not, what prescriptions she'll need, etc -- by the end of the week.

Because of that, I left the forum temporarily. However, even if we do not start back in 2008, my newsthread is lost and I never bothered to back any of the vital newsposts up... thus, I haven't any time left to keep on with DotW III. As per Wally's request, I will remain on as official "Wise Old Man"(which will become my new title when we all re-register) to come to for advice, but I won't be able to continue posting for the Philippines. Once again, apologies to you guys; I hate leaving in the middle of an forum down. Has to be done though...

[Evil Capitalist]

Damn. I hope that you feel you can come back some time Rich- you're one of the best posters in the forum, arguably the best.

[Shadowstrike]

The general consensus is that we keep on going from where we left off, and hanged be whomever suggests rolling back time or restarting. That gentlemen, is what I intend to support. Let's restore all we can and bring back Destiny of the World and the Frontier!

[Scott F]

I have my computer set to purge my temporary internet files every night at a certain time, so as to save space. As an unhappy result of this, I do not have any of the threads left on my computer.

[Shadowstrike]

Well, that sure taught me a lesson. Heck, I have five extra gigabytes..... *sets History to keep everything up to 5 days*

[Coug]

To make the task easier for you, I have all the files up until 1084. The HTML files you have will be named in a similar way. So we basically need all HTML files that have a number higher than 1084.

[WanderingWalrus]

Regarding the Forums

Hey, if you folks can paste together the missing 200 or so threads from your caches, you'll be doing us all a huge favor. I wasn't too keen on the rewind idea myself, but it's still a better solution than repairing what we could from memory. Too many gaps and quarrels would emerge.

Coug told me our last backed-up thread was 1084, and he also believes that we were around 1250 when we crashed (I think we were closer to 1300).

If we can manage to gather together, say 80% or more of the lost threads, I'd gladly go forward with them over rewinding. Co-ordinate efforts with EC (who seemingly volunteered himself for the task) and e-mail me and Coug with a list of whatchoo end up with.

As for when we'll return, I'm still waiting for Coug to pop up wth the latest update.

[Shadowstrike]

And remember folks, if anyone inherits a large fortune or hits the lottery jackpot in the meantime, put in a bid for www.thefrontier.com

[Napoleon Bonaparte II]

How do we know the thread number?

[Dr. Nick]

Well, I cleared the setting Anssi... learn't a valuable lesson here.

Taz? Wally? Anyone saved the YPF BioDiesel deals thread?

[Napoleon Bonaparte II]

Number threads Napoleon has:

001241
001227
001230
001237
001217
001216
001204
001239
001228
001204
001235
001243
001234 (hmm...both disasters affecting the US and CSA have their last two numbers switched...cool)
001229
001238
001215
001173
001091
001099
001029
001184



Now...Coug, you say you have those HTMLS before 001800...but do you have them updated? In reality we are looking for posts not threads.

[Mao]

I personally don't care either way...not like last time...eh...

[Coug]

That's a point... ok, anything helps. Just take the whole shabang. Everything you can get.