Online Alpha Archive - the Space: 1999 Mailing List
The Space: 1999 Mailing List began life on January 25, 1993 with a Usenet announcement by founder Nick Sayer. For more than four years, the list was hosted at KFU.com under Nick's ownership and administration. Thanks, Nick!
On February 21, 1997 ownership and administration was passed on to Marcy Kulic, Marshall Poindexter and David Welle with hosting being handled by BuffNET.net under the evolved name Online Alpha - the Space: 1999 Mailing List. Thanks, Marcy, Marshall and David!
On July 26, 2000 the list again changed to a new team of owners and administrators, this time with hosting moving to eGroups (now a part of Yahoo! Groups).
Over the years, online access to the list's archive of messages was available, but due to various reasons, portions of the archive were lost.
When the list moved to eGroups, a volunteer was sought to handle caretaking of the existing message archive. I stepped forward and moved the archive to its current home on Space1999.net calling it Online Alpha Archive - the Space: 1999 Mailing List. At that time, the archive consisted of only a limited number of existing message digests from the BuffNET.net years.
I had the thought of expanding the archive and solicited the members of the eGroups list for missing digests. I received and added a number of digests from member Jenny Lobb. I also received many additional thousands of individual messages from Horst Noll and MB. Thanks, Jenny, Horst and MB.
Looking for a better way of making all these messages available on the 'net, I discovered MHonArc (a Perl mail-to-HTML converter), that looked like it would work nicely for making a "bigger and better" archive. But, first I had to learn how to use the software and second I had to sort out all these messages, weed out any duplicates, etc.
Taking longer than I ever imagined was possible when I started this, I've finally managed to assemble the current archive. Although it is missing messages and others are only "excerpts", I believe that this is the most complete online archive ever amassed for the list.
This archive covers the pre-eGroups/Yahoo! Groups time frame of January 25, 1993 to July 26, 2000. Messages after July 26, 2000 can be accessed via Yahoo! Groups.
The archive can be read from either the Date Index or the Thread Index (based on subject) or by searching for a particular item using the Search feature.
Please note that all of the list administration addresses found in the archive are no longer functional. If you're interested in subscribing to the current list, it can now be found at Yahoo! Groups under the name OnlineAlpha, or you can use the convenient link at left.
Fly Like an Eagle,
Online Alpha Archive Webmaster
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