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This is a random group of random people. Yes, from what I know the failed ones will be easy to re-download later. It's not something to worry too much about an

• coderdude 16y ago
  I'm not meaning to offend these people or anyone else. I even stated in my comment that it happens to the best of us. It's just that if you call yourself the ArchiveTeam and come out guns a-blazin' like you're the savior of all that is data you should at least make sure you have the basics covered. I think it's a good thing what they're doing. I just find the attitude in their plea for assistance crude.
  • aw3c2 16y ago
    Jason Scott is a very vocal person. I do not really like his style nor that post in particular. But hey, participating in this is fun!
    • coderdude 16y ago
      Archiving data from the Web is a cool thing -- it would be fun to participate. I'm personally a fan of textfiles.com. They have some text files I wrote back in '97 or '98 still stored away somewhere. One thing I like about the ArchiveTeam's wiki are these pages: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Deathwatch http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Deathwatch http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Fire_Drill http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Fire_Drill
  • soult 16y ago
    The problem is that we mostly make stuff up as we go. With geocities, it was basically wget + rsync. With Yahoo Video it is wget + youtube-dl. Not many of us are programmers and at first there was nobody around who was able to fix the UTF-8 problem. We decided to start anyways, knowing that it would be easy to locate all videos that failed and download them later. It's better to get 95% than nothing at all.